Best IDE for debugging and code completion in CakePHP

Question

I am new to CakePHP. Does anyone have any experience with a free Uuntu IDE that can do code completion and, most importantly, the ability to debug CakePHP code?

Any answers are welcome.

thanks

Answer 1

I would use Netbeans, and I mean that I use Netbeans. It can intelligently work through inherited classes, so it works very well with CakePHP.

http://netbeans.org/

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In addition, netbeans IDE now has a CakePHP plugin.

Answer 2

Sublime Text 3 is the best in my opinion. I used PhpStorm, Komodo, Aptana Studio 3, Notepad ++ and others. All these are good IDEs. But Sublime Text gives me autocomplete for CakePHP and other features. Give it a try. You'll like it.

Answer 3

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

Netbeans works well for PHP in general, you get full code completion in controllers, but you can't get proper completion in Views to work. The same thing in Eclipse, however the formatting of the code for PHP is pretty n00by.

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

Answer 4

I suggest trying Codelobster PHP Edition

It has a free debugger and a special CakePHP autocomplete plugin.