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Finding a good PHP IDE - Eclipse + PDT

Note: This post was created awhile back on another platform and I migrated to my current one.

So after using Dreamweaver CS3 for a couple of months now, I felt it was lacking. It wasn’t as good as Microsoft Visual Studio. One of the things it’s lacking is a good auto-complete. The way Dreamweaver CS3 handles most of the coding is annoying and not as natural as Microsoft Visual Studio.

I’ve googled a bit and found out about Eclipse IDE with PDT. So far, it’s a great IDE. I do not know all about it but just enough through these videos:

Eclipse PDT Video 1

Eclipse PDT Video 2

Note: Code Assist is not on by default, so you need to go to:
Window -> Preferences -> PHP -> Code Assist
Check the “Enabled auto activation” checkbox. The default 200 ms delay is long, so I edited it to 20 ms.

Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay

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Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

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