{"id":71,"date":"2007-11-16T12:57:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T17:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/11\/16\/the-pdt-or-i-dont-like-zend\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T17:57:04","slug":"the-pdt-or-i-dont-like-zend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/11\/16\/the-pdt-or-i-dont-like-zend\/","title":{"rendered":"The PDT (Or: I Don’t Like Zend)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My animosity towards Zend<\/a> has really increased lately, due to a number of factors (the recent ZendCon, their character when dealing with open-source projects, etc.), so much so that I’ve sworn off Zend products. Which doesn’t really sound like a difficult task at first glance, since I only use one Zend product — but that one product just happens to be one of the only good PHP IDEs out there: Zend Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fortunately (and if you follow the PHP world, you’ve probably heard about this), Studio is receiving competent competition in the open-source world from the Eclipse platform in the guise of the PHP Developer Tools, or PDT<\/a>. (And that’s competition in a very liberal sense of the word, since Zend is actually backing PDT — so they can rip it of– base future versions of Zend Studio on it.)<\/p>\n

Anyways, the real goal here was just to talk about a quick PDT tip (now that I’ve switched), not rant and rave about how Zend seems to have a knack for positioning themselves in the middle of hugely conflicting interests.<\/p>\n

The tip: Most people know that you can Ctrl+Click “into” a function call. What I didn’t know is that you can also Ctrl+Hover to get a tooltip containing the first ~10 lines of the function.<\/p>\n

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This can be immensely<\/em> useful when you’re just trying to figure out what a piece of code does, without completely losing your train of thought and switching contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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