[mapserver-users] TIP: PHP IDE - pretty cool tool

[Hankley, Chip]

For all you PHP-MapScript folks (on windows)...

I just installed the latest Maguma Studio Light
(http://www.maguma.com/english/download.php) - this is the "new" PHP Coder -
and am pretty impressed. It's freeware. You can download a version bundled
with DBG (the PHP debugger written by Dmitri Dmitrienko).

The nicest thing I see so far is that you can set watches for your PHP
variables, and step through your code (just like in other IDEs). I've been
doing this manually with "echo" and "die" for a while, so this is a huge
step up for me. I don't know... maybe I could have been doing this all
along... anyway - hope some of you find it useful.

Unfortunately, the Maguma product seems to be totally windows based, but DBG
is not.

Cheers!

Chip