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By vinayras - Posted on 19 February 2008

Recently i was looking for an IDE for Devloping Drupal based projects. Uptill now we are using Quanta Plus (on Red Hat / Fedora Linux ). It did great job, and it was cool to use this tool. Quanta as Syntax highliting, autocomplete, function references, HTML autocomplete, advances search/replace, Text coloring/highlighting and many such developer friendly features.

I just wanted to know what editors Drupal developers are using. Did some googling and found many recommendations and opinions.

Eclipse (with PHP Dev Tool plugin) seems to be best one available for FREE. Komodo & PHPEd was rated as best commercial PHP Editors. Zend Studio is another good commercial editor, though i did not hear much about it amoung Drupal Developers.

Coming back to Quanta plus, it also allows very good integration with Cervasia (a tool for managing CVS commits/updates). After all these analysis, i still find Quanta Plus to be good for me.

Drupal:
http://drupal.org/node/147789 (Development tools)

Eclipse:
http://drupal.org/node/75242 (Configuring Eclipse)

Dreamweaver Settings:
http://drupal.org/node/188983

Quanta Plus: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/index.php

References:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/2663 (How to Succesfully Incorporate Eclipse IDE into a Drupal Workflow)
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-ide
http://www.tech-wanderings.com/IDEs-for-Drupal-and-more
http://www.masteringdrupal.com/articles/developer-tools-for-Drupal

(Drupal Podcast No. 31: Drupal Development Tools)
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/drupal_podcast_no_31_drupal_developmen...

Looking forward to your thoughts.

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Anonymous's picture

Excellent list, it is reaaly helpful.

Anonymous's picture

Surprised you did not mention the full Drupal API support built into Komodo. That was a major selling point for me.

vinayras's picture

Hi,

Thanks for pointing it.
I did not know that Komodo has full Drupal API support.

Vinay Yadav
VinayRas Infotech, Nagpur
http://www.vinayras.com

janwari's picture

Excellent post vinay.

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