Developer(s) Eclipse Foundation Operating system License Eclipse Public License | Development status Active Type PHP IDE | |
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Stable release 4.2.0 / December 21, 2016 (2016-12-21) | ||
PHP Development Tools (PDT) is a language IDE plugin for the Eclipse platform and the open source project that develops it.
Contents
- PHP Editor
- Advanced PHP Debugging
- Primary modules
- Project timeline
- Naming issues
- Zend Technologies contributions
- References
The project intends to encompass all tools necessary to develop PHP based software. It uses the existing Eclipse Web Tools Project to provide developers with PHP capabilities. All these php tools are easy to use and developers can speed up the development process by using these tools. Additional Plugins are available as PDT Extensions.
PHP Editor
Advanced PHP Debugging
Primary modules
Project timeline
The project officially began around March 8, 2006. By the end of 2006, the project was approaching the 0.7 release. On April 6, 2007, 0.7 RC3 was released as the final 0.7 version.
In the latter half of 2007, a series of 1.0 milestones were reached, and on September 18, 2007, PDT 1.0 Final was released.
Naming issues
The PHP Development Tools project has had two names during its development. * It was initially named PHP Development Tools, then changed to PHP IDE, and reverted to PHP Development Tools on January 1, 2007. Various documentation and reviews use either name.
Zend Technologies contributions
Significant PDT development is being done by Zend Technologies. Zend sells a competing product named Zend Studio. PDT, as free software, may cannibalize sales of Zend Studio although the latter has more features. Others contend that PDT is deliberately maintained as a "lite" version of Zend Studio.