[UPHPU] introducing Coda: one window web development

[John David Anderson]

On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Scott Hill wrote:

> I'm just not sure how or if
> some of these great IDEs could help me.

Disclaimer: your mileage may vary with these. Vim can probably do  
some of these, I may not be aware.

Here's somethings than (g)vi(m) doesn't quite do for me that Zend  
Studio (or things like Coda or Textmate do)

1. Code completion: variable names, global constants, php functions,  
etc. Mostly this is for speed and avoiding spelling mistakes, but  
it's also nice to look up params for PHP's brilliantly architected  
function library.

2. Snippets. TextMate's are fantastic. I can place variables,  
fallback values, substitutions, tab stops, placeholders, mirrors,  
transformations, shell code insertions, etc.

3. Project views. I like some way to narrow down what part of the  
filesystem I'm working with. Its also really nice to have files in  
tabs, *especially* remote files.

4. Debugging. Zend's is especially nice. In a world where interfaces  
are becoming increasingly rich, you can't die($foo) to get the data  
you need (its really hard to do this in the middle of a complex AJAX  
request or a Flash remoting call).

-- John