Best IDE for debugging and Code Completion in CakePHP

Question

Hi,

I am new to CakePHP framework. Does anybody have any experience with a free IDE for Uuntu which can perform code completion and most importantly ability to debug CakePHP code?

Any responses would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

See http://mark-story.com/posts/view/code-completion-for-cakephp-in-eclipse

Netbeans works well for PHP in general, you will get full code completion in Controllers, but couldn't get proper completion in Views to work. Same in Eclipse, however no code formatting for PHP is pretty n00by.

Debugging PHP generally sucks, I mostly use $this-log().

Answer 2

I would use Netbeans, and I mean, I do use Netbeans. It can intelligently work across inherited classes so works very well against CakePHP.

http://netbeans.org/