Recent Posts by Petr Pisl

I created the second part of the demo, where I talk about the PHP distribution of NetBeans 6.5. This part is about basic editor features.  In the next part of the demo I will concentrate on the PHP editor features.

Today NetBeans 6.5 has been released. The main page at NetBeans.org site was changed and point out that the new release can be downloaded. I have mentioned many times that NetBeans 6.5 is the first release of NetBeans which supports the PHP development. Although the support for developing PHP applications is new and young, I hope that it will be useful for many PHP developers and for the PHP community too. I would like to say thanks to all people who contribute to this release...

// //]]> A new screencast  is now available on NetBeans TV: Building a Flickr slideshow with PHP. This demo shows off the new PHP features of NetBeans 6.5 by walking through building a simple application to access Flickr.  You will then see how to turn your Flickr images into a simple slideshow using JavaScript and CSS. Thanks to Justin Bolter for this screencast.

At the end of October I attended the International PHP Conterence 2008, where I had presentation about the PHP support in NetBeans. You can read more about the conference here at this blog. A few people asked me for creating a screencast about the demo. There is the first part, which is about the PHP project and run configurations.  The next part of the demo will be about the editor features.

Today I have committed to the trunk small improvement of generating getters and setters for class properties. It's based on your suggestion and as you can see on the pictures, you can select the way, how to generate the getter and setter method name. There is a new combo box that contains two items which display the result of the method name for the first class field. On the picture you can see that you can select between two ways. The first one is the way which is used in...

I have played again with performance of the NetBeans PHP IDE. For this purpose I have created "PHP code generator" that generates php files with classes, which create large class structure. Still it's somehow artificial, but for testing purposes the generated sources are good and valid. I did some measurements on Core 2 Duo 2 GHZ machine. I generated php files for four projects as you can see from the result table. I have switch off the Task list window and measured the time...

NetBeans 6.5 doesn't have direct support for generating PHP documentation. Here is a trick how to do it. Basically I use a new Run Configuration that calls a small script to generate the documentation. I did this on my Ubuntu machine, but Windows users should be able to reuse the steps. At first I downloaded the PHPDocumentor itself from the project pages, unzipped the zip file and change the rights of phpdoc to be executable. For the next step I created a new bash script which...

This is not really hot news, but I haven't time to write about it yet. The Release Candidate 2 was published on Thursday, but if you missed it you can download the build from here. If you want to know about available features (not only the PHP one), you can read here.

Last week I attended the International PHP Conference 2008 in Mainz in Germany. The conference was well prepared and I would like to say thanks to organizers. There was just one thing, which could be better. It was raining for all my stay, but this nobody can influence:). As I expected, almost nobody from the attendees knew the PHP support in NetBeans or NetBeans itself. PHP support in NetBeans is still new and the first version of the PHP support will be released with...