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Zend Studio for Eclipse

Right, lets get this out of the way. Zend Studio for Eclipse is a great tool and no other PHP IDEs come near to its level of Intellisense smarts, features, and integration. I’ve been using it steadily since version 5, before it was Eclipse, and I don’t see myself stopping in the future.

That said…

Most code editors have figured out this whole code folding thing where you click on the minus button next to the function block and it collapses into a neat declaration.

Zend Studio has this too, only with a slight twist. Most of the times it works right. Other times, it forgets to fold bits. Yet other times, especially when folding PHPDoc blocks, the fold swallows whole unrelated fields/functions that happen to be next to the one I want to fold, declaration and everything. Nice.

I could understand this slipping past testing given how intermittent it is, but ZS’s been around for at least a couple of years, and it’s got like a dozen version updates, one of which explicitly touted having better folding. Yeah, it’s better, because before it screwed up half the time rather than a 10th of the time. It still sucks.

And while on the subject of sucking, in what universe is it sensible that if I edit a file that exists in a ZS project outside of the environment, and then try to open it in ZS, it flips out in glorious fashion:

 

And then I right click on the offending file, click on Refresh, and it’s happy again. If it knows it’s out of sync, why the hell can’t it refresh it automatically? The file’s right there!

Makes me want to hit it. Surely I can’t be the only one running into this stuff?

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