I am expirementing with using a full-fledged IDE for web development at work. Until recently I used gEdit; most people don’t know that gEdit can be extended via plugins to become a fantastic development environment. However, one thing I could never get to work was auto-completion based upon functions and classes in PHP. However, the speed of using gEdit, as opposed to Eclipse, was amazing and I never could quite get the hang of editors like Aptana and Eclipse. Recently, I found that Sun’s Java-based IDE, NetBeans, had added symfony support and I wondered how useful that might be. I tried it and loved it. Using NetBeans is not without issues, however. It’s still a bit buggy (that might be because I’m using the development code) and memory usage is about what you’d expect from a Java-based editor (ie, sometimes really, really high). Still, it’s worked out quite well and I’d recommend giving it a try. (more…)
