Design, Develop and Deploy PHP Web Applications with NuSphere PhpED 5.0 and Nu-Coder 1.4.
The folks at NuSphere are no
strangers to PHP development – their engineering group is run by Dmitri
Dmitrienko, the guy who wrote DBG the world's first PHP debugger, and they've been in the PHP tools
business for more than 7 years now. PhpED 5, their latest product release,
lives up to its namesake delivering more of what their popular PHP IDE
has become known for: a highly configurable user interface, a speedy
PHP editor that doesn't slow you down, a solid and robust PHP Debugger
for finding and eliminating bugs, and so many helpful integrated utilities
and gadgets. The staff of php-editors.com recently spent a few days
working with their latest new products and here are some of the highlights.
- PHP code folding
is supported in the PHP editor, allowing users to expand and collapse
different parts of a PHP file to improve readability. Their implementation
is configurable, along with virtually every other aspect of their PHP
editor, giving you full control over how you want the PHP code folding
to work. For example, you can set the color and the placement of the
folding mask or even or disable code folding all together. You can also
click collapse all, collapse class methods only, collapse functions
etc. Speed and productivity are the key, and when you're using the tool,
it feels like someone actually counted the number of clicks that their
users have to do in the PHP Editor, then agonized to try to reduce that
number.
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- NuSphere recently
released a PHP encoding utility called Nu-Coder, and PhpED 5.0 features an integrated
user interface that makes encoding your entire project as simple as
clicking a mouse button. The integration of their development tools
and encoding utilities is a great help for reducing the work involved
with getting your applications into a production environment.
- In the past NuSphere
added the ability to preview the results of the execution in any external
browser, and with version 5.0 they now embedd the Mozilla browser (essentially
FireFox, but without the trademark). You set it in Tools->Default
Browser, and it's handy for browser compatibility testing, etc.
- A new database form
wizard makes it easy to generate PHP Code used for talking to any database
through Ajax requests. In the admittedly short period of time that we
played with Db-Form Wizard, we generated database forms which could
connect to both MySQL and SQL Server databases. PostgreSQL, Firebird
and other databases are also supported.
Of course there's a long feature
list of other tools, and combined their popular Php Debugger, we think
it's a compelling offering. PHP developers seeking a comprehensive and
easy-to-use PHP IDE at a competitive price ought to take note. NuSphere
offers a free trial
download from their
website.
The
PHP-Editors.com Review Staff
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