PHP VS - PHP IDE Based on Visual Studio

Hi guys,
I want to introduce you some cool thing.

Before couple of months I had to start writing on php project. I installed XAMPP configured apache, made mySQL database, set up Wordpress :) and start my Visual Studio and made php project :). Yes I started writing php scripts in Visual Studio - this is not a joke. When I asked some of my friends who wrote on php which IDE they used I got huge number of answers:

• NetBeans
  


• PHP Zend Studio
  


• Maguna Studio
  


• Quanta++
  


• PHP Expert
  


• PHP Rapid
  


• Notepad++
  


• Plug-in for Eclipse (If you used this you’ll never should shut down your computer, because if you close once eclipse you have to spend some years of waiting before eclips starts again :))
  


• Etc.
  

So much tools and which should I use?

The answer is only one (for me :) ) – VS.Php

I’m a .NET guy and I like write code in Visual Studio. I want to have power of debugging, I want to view my site when I push some of “F” buttons. The VS.Php gave me this power :) and It is a plug-in for Visual Studio – which I have already installed on my PC, so I don’t have try another tools and install and uninstall them.

So what is VS.Php?

VS.Php is a PHP IDE based on Visual Studio IDE. With VS.Php you can design, develop, debug and deploy PHP applications within the Visual Studio IDE. VS.Php key features are around providing rich PHP editor as well as Smarty editing capabilities. Also is the ability to debug PHP scripts locally as well as remotely.

You have download VS.Php form here http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php

When you install the VS.Php you can start your php project as good as you start the other .NET projects. File-> New …


The cool thing is that the php editor for Visual Studio provides the key features provided by other languages.

You have VS.Php color coding


Real-time syntax check


Intellisense


Code snippets


Goto definition


Html intellisense and auto-completion


The debugging with VS.Php is realy cool.

You have Debug Output Window



After I used VS.Php I think it is really cool.

The only one negative thing is that he is not free. But there aren’t two good things in this world and the world is not perfect :).