[KrisJordan]

Included in Sandbox:

• PHP Developer Tools IDE (Eclipse PDT)
  
• XDebug
  
• PHPUnit
  
• PHP 5.3
  
• Apache 2.2
  
• KCacheGrind
  
• Git
  
• MySQL 5

[KevBurnsJr]

• Notepad++
  
• Web Developer Toolbar
  
• Firebug
  
• HTTPWatch

[KrisJordan]

Firebug and WDT are big ones. Haven't figured out how to install them from a shell script yet. Any ideas?

HTTP Watch looks interesting, you use it for IE debugging?

What's the equivalent of Notepad++ on *nix? GEdit comes installed by default. Any other good gui *nix text editors like textmate/notepad++?

[Jamie Rumbelow]

Looking at it from a Mac OS X angle, you'll want:

• TextMate (fantastic text editor), try to find a decent open-source alternative
  
• 7zip
  
• Mercurial
  
• SVN
  
• PostgreSQL
  
• SQLite3
  
• Spotify!

[Rafał Filipek]

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Any other good gui *nix text editors like textmate/notepad++?

You should try NetBeans. When You turn off all toolbars etc it looks like textmate

• Netbeans
  
• SVN
  
• FireBug
  
• WebDeveloper Toolbar
  
• MySQL
  
• XDebug

[WooDWorkeR]

So my dev env is

• Netbeans
  
• Firebug
  
• WebDEv Toolbar
  
• MySQL Workbench
  
• SVN

[Rafał Filipek]

It's funny because most of us are using same software. Svn, Mysql, WebDev Toolbar, Firebug - You just can't live without them. But nobody mention about deploy software like Capistrano. What are you using for that? I know Capistrano is great piece of software but it's not very popular among php developers. Now it's quite pain for me when i have to update some files (svn of course) , database structure and some database data in the same time.

[KevBurnsJr]

I mucked around with Capistrano a bit after reading this article back in '06
Automated PHP Deployment With Capistrano

After I got my deployment environment set up I was like...
"Wait a sec, I'm using an SVN hook to fire a Ruby script to fire a shell command. Why do I need Ruby?"

So now I just connect my GIT hooks directly to bash scripts.

[KrisJordan]

We've started using git hooks to trigger bash scripts as well. One of the major priorities for the next iteration of Recess Tools is decoupling many of the tasks from the UI so that they can be brought into scripts as well. Anyone have experience with best practices using PHP CLI? Deployment scripts written in PHP (even if they use the shell underneath)?

The next step for our post commit hook is running PHPUnit with code coverage. I am going to write this up when we do it. Within the Recess Sandbox PHPUnit and XDebug are all setup to be able to run code coverage reports, which is pretty slick.

[Mengu]

i'm using:

- netbeans
- geany
- gedit
- php 5.2
- mysql
- ruby
- ruby on rails
- python
- django

[mxcode]

depends on if I am on VM or OSX
VM (ubuntu) prod (centOS)
GphpEdit and VIM
SVN
firebug
php5.3
mysql
sqlite
apache

osx
eclipse
VIM
rest is same as my VM


win
rather shoot myself in the face than dev on a windows box

[Dodi]

My primary web dev tools :

• Notepad++
  
• Firebug
  
• SVN
  
• SQLite Manager
  
• Mysql Front-End
  
• Various browser for testing compatibility.

[Darryl]

It depends on which machine I'm using in the house as to what I use for development (horses for courses, etc.)

I tend to use:

On Windows:

1. Komodo IDE 5.2.1 - with SQLite manager
2. Firefox with Firebug
3. SQLYog
4. WAMP 2i

On Linux (Fedora 10):

1. Komodo IDE 5.2.1 - with SQLite manager (see the pattern?! )
2. Firefox with Firebug
3. phpMyAdmin
4. Apache 2.2.1/MySQL 5.1 (Usually hand-configured)


Lately in work due to restrictions on this contract it's been Zend Server CE/Zend Studio (which is Eclipse based).