Re: Websmart php or Zend Studio

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Murray,

Congratulations on learning a new skill!  I'm not sure it matters which 
IDE you use since you will still get to write quite a bit of PHP with 
either of them, so pick one and go.  Clearly the Zend route is going to 
cause you to create the user interface manually and I see some benefit 
to that since you really need HTML and Java Script in your programming 
toolbox eventually anyway,  The WebSmart route does a nice job of 
setting up a very orderly approach to the project, which makes the 
development cycle faster since it does most of the plumbing for you 
leaving the business logic for you to insert.  I have licenses for and 
use both of them, when editing PHP code they are about the same until it 
comes to debugging, there the Zend tool is a bit better.

Bottom line, I'm not sure it matters, pick what you like and do it.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 5/9/2013 7:58 PM, Murray Crofskey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>   Coming from a RPG background,  which one do you think is investing time
> and effort in...  Websmart php or Zend studio + Zend framework
>
> I have access to Zend server running on Ibm i
>
> No immediate projects I will use this for,  just self learning...
>
> Cheers Murray
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