NetBeans for PHP

Screencast: Declaring Variables in Comment and Code Completion for Constructors and SQL Queries

A screencast is now available showing how to declare variables in comments, constructor code completion, and SQL code completion. The screencast is hosted on mediacast.sun.com. [Read More]

Code Completion for Namespaces - part I

This is brief overview how to use code completion for namespaced elements in NetBeans 6.8.
Namespaced elements are resolved according  name resolution rules.

See examples for namespace name definitions that are important for resolution rules:

// Fully qualified name
$c = new \my\name\ExampleClass();

// Qualified name
$c = new name\ExampleClass();

// Unqualified name
$c = new ExampleClass();

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Sun GlassFish Web Stack video presentations

Videos of CommunityOne presentations about the Sun GlassFish Web Stack, which includes a full PHP AMP stack integrated with NetBeans. Demonstrations include the NetBeans DTrace plugin.
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(Symfony + PHP 5.3) == Milestone 1

We are pleased to announce that NetBeans IDE 6.8 M1 Download is now available. [Read More]

Community Contributed Docs

We have a program for NetBeans users to submit their own tutorials, tips and tricks, and how-to docs. It's called Community Docs, and the portal is at http://wiki.netbeans.org/CommunityDocs. It's very popular. However, there have been no submissions from PHP developers! So, I was thinking, perhaps none of you know about it? If any of you have any cool examples of apps that would be the basis of a nice tutorial, or have tips for other users, please consider posting a full description over there. It's a big help to everyone.

Recent improvements in PHPUnit-support

This blog post has been contributed by Thomas Meyer who has helped a lot with these improvements. Thanks a lot, Thomas! [Read More]

Ignored folders? Sure!

Today, I would like to introduce you a very nice feature that many (really many) of you wanted to see and use. In the development version of NetBeans, one can ignore project's folders - what does it mean? It means that one can specify folders that are not visible in the UI but mainly, they are not scanned and indexed (example of such folder could be a directory with generated documentation etc.). Have a look at Project Properties dialog:

Please notice that due to bug 168460, IDE must be restarted.

That's all for today, as always, please test it and report all the issues or enhancements you find in NetBeans IssueZilla (component php, subcomponent project).

Minor improvements in FTP/SFTP

Today, I'm going to write a very short blog post about 2 minor improvements in FTP/SFTP support in NetBeans.

The first improvement is providing detailed information about the file transfer progress (uploading as well as downloading) and we hope that many our users will find it useful. The information is based on file size so it should be quite accurate.

The other improvement is more UI enhancement but again, we hope that it will be useful as well.

As I promised, this blog post was very short but please, do not forget to test it and report all the issues or enhancements you find in NetBeans IssueZilla (component php, subcomponent ftp support).

Initial Symfony support

Today, I would like to inform you that we have added initial support for the popular PHP framework - Symfony (the most voted issue in NetBeans IssueZilla).
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Announcements

First let me announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.7!

I would like to thank everyone who helped us to make the IDE better. Thanks for every reported issue, comment or contributed fix. To learn more about NetBeans IDE 6.7 please use the following resources:

• Download NetBeans http://www.netbeans.org/downloads
  
• Videos about NetBeans IDE 6.7 http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/intro-screencasts.html
• Features of NetBeans IDE 6.7 http://www.netbeans.org/features/
• General information about the NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.org/

Second announcement is that long awaited PHP 5.3.0 is released!

PHP 5.3.0 brings new feautures and bug fixes. See announcement for more details. NetBeans IDE 6.8 will bring support for PHP 5.3.0.  For everyone who is eager to play with new features I can recommend to download one of latest PHP daily builds and try our current support. You may be pleasantly surprised and we are curious about your feedback. Definitely you can expect more blog entries announcing individual features in the couple of next weeks.

Code Navigation Improvements

When you work on a project, you need to navigate round the source code frequently.  NetBeans  IDE provides many navigation features that are highly useful since 6.5 but there were additional improvements and fixes in 6.7 that are worth of mentioning.

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PHP Application from Remote Server

NetBeans 6.7 is nearly out so it's time to start developing new features for the next release... [Read More]

How to Include File

How to include file in PHP NB IDE? Two ways:

1. file system code completion for include/require
2. Fast Import Alt+Shift-I
   

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Introduce Variable QuickFix

Last week I've got a question: "I need to explain when the Introduce Variable hint is invoked?" and I've realized that I could mention it briefly in this weblog because I'm not sure how many of you have already noticed it. [Read More]

Remote Synchronization

Many of you would like to have remote synchronization for your PHP projects - well, let's have a look what we have done.

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