PHP Development Software
Mar 14th, 2006 by Lyle Melick
I recently ran across VS.PHP from JCX.Software[1]. It is a plug-in for Microsoft’s Visual Studio. I had a copy of Visual Studio that I got as part of a promotion [free]. I’ve downloaded the trial and have been using if for about a week now & have been very pleased.
I’ve been able to develop a web application much quicker than hand coding it in VI. Since I’m a self-taught coder, the manuals have opened up my use of PEAR modules. I’ve got it set up right now to use IIS on my WinXP Pro desktop that I’ve loaded PHP[2] into.
Check it out!
links in this article:
[1] http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php
[2] http://www.php.net
Poor Man’s Solution to get coloring to work in Visual Studio: http://blog.cumps.be/visual-studio-2008-and-php-coloring/
In case you don’t want to buy anything else (but then again, you probably own Visual Studio :p or you use the free Beta 2008!)