Advice for setting up Aptana for CodeIgniter?

Question

I've used Aptana for a good number of web projects and like it a lot. I've also used CodeIgniter for a couple projects and liked it, as well. Now I'm hoping to combine the two in a happy marriage of cross-platform productivity. Any advice on setting up Aptana's more useful features? I'm hoping to get any of the following:

• Code completion
• Functional built-in previewing
• Debugging

If completely infeasible, what IDE would you suggest? Generic Aptana PHP setup tips would also be welcome, as they might guide me toward the ideal setup.

Answer 1

I would install Aptana as an Eclipse plug-in. Allows you to latter down the road install GWT or Flex with no fuss. Plus, Aptana as a plug-in has worked much better for me. Both in terms of stability and of usability.

I used to have Aptana crash on me every two days and since I'm running Eclipse with Aptana as a plug-in it never again crashed.

Eclipse with Aptana as a plug-in also has some handy features, like spell-checking, that Aptana did not have and has greatly improved my comments. That said, I must agree with you on the great level of detail and attention Aptana team has put in their software.