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Originally Posted by kneighbour
I agree - WeBuilder 2006 seems to be the best all round IDE out there.
I had mentioned some problems with the FTP interface - but that was because I had not understood how it worked. Now I have no problems with it at all. It is better in fact (well, faster) than Dreamweaver and most of the others.
There are still a few small issues, but it has most of the features I want.
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I installed Rapid PHP 2007 (v8.02) (which is almost the same as WeBuilder 2007) today and here are my thoughts after about 3 hours of using:
Pros:
- fast, lightweight (about 5MB)
- nice and intuitive interface
- nice splitting windows with preview
- good highlighing
- good bookmarking
- well thought
Cons: (Flaws that disqualify Rapid PHP 2007 from using (in my purposes) are marked with asterisk *)
- Switching between open files (using tabs) does not refresh Code Explorer, it is refreshed when mouse cursor enters its area.
- Delay to showing function parameters cannot be set.
- Delay for automatic function suggestions cannot be set.
- Closing a tab by double clicking could be implemented (at least as an option)
- In keyboard shortcuts, you cannot find command by shortcut, and cannot sort shortcuts table by command or shortcut.
- *Cannot find command shortcut to delete line (Ctrl+Y) to reassign it to other keystroke (Ctrl+E).
- Closing program should save session by default to open previously opened files when running program again.
- *PHP Syntax Checking shall not show alert if no errors (only some info in status bar).
- Wizard at start shall ask to input path to local *.chm help file instead of setting it later.
- *Typing dollar inside function/method shall give list of allowed variables in local scope (not global) to choose.
- *When CHM help file is invoked by pressing F1, it is not possible to go back to Rapid PHP by pressing Alt+TAB, it's icon selected from program manager sends user to chm window.
- Automatically enclosing brackets and quotes is missing.
- Keystroke: Ctrl+Enter could insert <br /> tag.
Anyway I hope it can be the best in no time when some features will be added/bugs fixed.