Any PHP editors supporting 5.3 syntax?

Question

I'm using namespaces in a project and Eclipse PDT, my IDE of choice, recognizes them as syntax errors. Not only it renders its convenient error checking unusable, but it also ruins Eclipse's PHP explorer.

5.3 features are coming to PDT 2.0 scheduled for release in December. Are there any alternatives for the present moment? I'm looking for 5.3 syntax highlighting and error checking at the least.

Answer 1

I am not aware of any at the moment, you might just have to wait a while =/

Answer 2

Have you tried Aptana Studio or the Aptana plugin for Eclipse? I'm not sure if the Aptana plugin supports PHP, but Aptana Studio does. That might have what you are looking for.

Answer 3

Some threads that have been addressed by the various PHP IDE developers regarding the status of 5.3 syntax support:

• PHPEclipse: http://www.phpeclipse.net/ticket/636 or google
• Aptana: http://forums.aptana.com/viewtopic.php?t=6538 or google
• PDT: http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=234938 or google
• TextMate: http://www.nabble.com/PHP-Namespace-Support-td19784898.html (Namespace support) or google

Answer 4

It probably won't really help you, but my current solution is Zend Studio 5.5 with real-time errors disabled. I can't use the internal debugger on 5.3 projects, but everything else in the IDE still works and the namespace code isn't highlighted as an error. I get to keep the code explorer and syntax highlighting and just test my code external to the IDE.

Answer 5

Hi! This blog states that PHP 5.3 support already presents in latest integration of PDT 2.1.0.

Answer 6

NuSphere (http://www.nusphere.com/ ) just released PhpED with full support for all php-5.3 features. Works great for me.

-j

Answer 7

jEdit http://jedit.org

Answer 8

The latest version of netbeans 6.8(beta) does support most of the new features...