Aptana 3 PHP Support

My previous blog post was all about the best PHP IDE and how our development team decided to switch from Aptana to Netbeans partly because of Aptanas decision to drop its PHP support in favour of PDT. However it seems that Aptana has since backtracked on this and is now re-introducing its own PHP support for Version 3.

So far they have confirmed the following as part of the Beta:
1. Syntax coloring which is part of the new Studio themes support.
2. Code Assist (for scripts in a single project and PHP API)
3. Syntax Errors annotations (which are actually better then what we had in the old php plug in).
4. Mark Occurrences
5. A PHP ‘Ruble’ (https://radrails.tenderapp.com/faqs/radrails-3/ruble-programming-guide) that provides you the ability to add capabilities to the editor by scripting them at your own team (with some Rails knowledge).

They have also confirmed the following features for future releases:
1. Code formatter
2. Debugger support
3. External libraries support
4. More views, such as class hierarchy etc.
5. Wizards and generators, such as class/interface wizards, Getters & Setters etc.
…And more

So it’s going to be interesting to see how Aptanas PHP shapes up in comparison to Netbeans and if this developer is going to be shifting back to Aptana.