NetBeans for PHP

Symfony Support Screencast

We've created a screencast that demonstrates the built-in support for the Symfony framework in NetBeans IDE for PHP 6.8. It shows how to set up the IDE to use Symfony, how to create a PHP project that uses the Symfony framework, and a number of tips, such as handy keymapping to set up in NetBeans IDE.

SQL code completion improved

Today, I would like to show you some improvements done in SQL code completion area (thanks to our colleagues from database team!).

PHP templates improved

Today, I would like to show you the latest improvements in PHP templates area.

Download NetBeans IDE 6.8 Milestone 2

Symfony support finished

Today I would like to announce that the support for Symfony PHP Framework (as we planned it for NetBeans 6.8) is finished. So, what's new?

PHP in YAML files

From the last week there is recognized PHP language in YAML files. It is only on the lexical level, but it's helpful.  This feature is mainly required by Symfony framework that uses PHP in YAML files.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We are searching for all PHP NetBeans users who would like to help us with testing our new experimental build. Everyone is welcome but we would need a feedback especially from users who often have to switch from NetBeans to command line or any other external application (usually because of running some external tool for versioning, PHP framework etc.). All these external changes should be correctly propagated to NetBeans.
On the other hands, performance, especially on non-local disks, could be slightly worse, so if you have any PHP project with such sources, please, give it a try as well because we are really interested in your results.

Detailed information can be found on a special wiki page dedicated to this experimental build.

Thanks a lot for your help and for your feedback!

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

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();

(Symfony + PHP 5.3) == Milestone 1

Recent improvements in PHPUnit-support

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

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.