Is there any IDE for fast drag and drop php development?

Question

Hi

I am using Eclipse IDE with few plug-ins for PHP dev. I am using PHPEclipse plug-in and I know there are lotsa other plugins like EasyEclipse.But is there an IDE like Visual Studio with cool drag and drop stuff for PHP?

Answer 1

If you're on Windows you might want to take a look at the (somewhat unfortunately named) "Delphi for PHP" from CodeGear / Emabarcadero which I hear mostly good things about - at least for new development that is as it's rather closely tied to a specific framework (VCL for PHP, which is Open Source), which makes it somewhat less of an interesting option for maintaining existing projects.

Answer 2

I use APTANA.

You can get it here http://www.aptana.com/

It's my web IDE of choice.

Answer 3

What do you want to drag and drop? If I'm not mistaken most dragging and dropping in Visual Studio has to do with the GUI and that is completely different from the way PHP works (rendering a web page). You might try a WYSIWYG webpage design tool like Dreamweaver (commercial) or maybe something like Nvu (free, open source). But that wont help you developing the actual php 'behind' the page.

Answer 4

Have you considered using a GUI drag-and-drop web widgets framework - TIBCO GI, Rialto, etc.
They're not PHP per se, but this wikipedia list of widget toolkits will help a lot