Recent Posts by Petr Pisl

This night I have tried to install Apache and PHP on a Windows machine with Vista. I thought that it will take just few minutes as it usually takes on Ubuntu, but it was not. I wanted to install the Apache to the default location (C:\\Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache...). The reason for this was that NetBeans is looking in the default instalation location and if exists, then it offers in new project wizards etc. So I downloaded the msi installer of Apache and...

Yesterday the first release candidate of NetBeans 6.5 was published . You can download it from netbeans.org site. If you use beta or an older build, I recommend to upgrade it. Now there is the last chance to correct showstoppers. So if you find out a bug, please write here or enter it into our Issuezilla. If there will not be any showstopper, then the final build will be published soon.

I have accepted invitation from David Van Couvering to attend his session and present the PHP features in NetBeans. The session will take place this Thursday, 23rd October and will start at 9:00 Pacific Time (18:00 CET, 17:00 BST). We will use DimDim presentation system so everybody can attend. But  the session has limited capacity of attendees. More info about the session you can find here. If you are interested, attend the session.

NetBeans celebrates 10th birthday. It is 10 years ago, when NetBeans was started as a student project. It's long time for a product. NetBeans are known in Java world and I hope that NetBeans is going to be known in PHP community as well as a good IDE for PHP developers. I wish to NetBeans many satisfied users.

Today I want to show a few screenshots of Prado support in NetBeans. At the beginning I want to answer question "Why are you creating Prado support when Symfony had much more votes?". I started to work on Prado support a few weeks before we anounced the voting. The main reason why I started to work on this was that I need to create a prototype of a framework support to recognize, what changes we need to do in our infrastructure to write a framework suport, which API's are...

Today a clone for NetBeans 6.5 was created. It means that trunk is open for the next development and also that only show stoppers can be fixed in NetBeans 6.5 . NetBeans 6.5 is the first version of NetBeans, which includes the PHP support. I hope that it will be useful for many developers.   Now we (the development team) are in planing phase. There are many things to do. You can help us to prioritize, what should be done and what should be improved. Just leave comment here or...

Krystina Polomski made a screencast about JavaScript debugging in NetBeans 6.5. The sceencast shows JS debuggin in simple Java Web Application, but the same functionality is offered for PHP projects as well and is available in the NetBeans PHP distribution. You can debug JavaScript running in Firefox and IE too. More about JavaScript debuggig support you can read here.

NetBeans are able to offer code completion for class fields of a PHP class. Because PHP is not a strict typed language, you can help to NetBeans to find out the type of a field. Let's have a simple example:  The example doesn't show good practice, because the class fileds shouldn't be accessible outside the class, but for explanation it's enough. One way how NetBeans are trying to find out the type of a field is that it looks through the class constructor. In our case...

In the previous entries about WordPress I have describe how to develop a WordPress plugin inside WordPress. This entry describes how to set up a project in NetBeans for every plugin separately.  Let say that I develop many WordPress plugin. The folder structure is displayed on the picture. I have folder WordPressPlugins that contains all plugins which I develop. Also I have one copy of WordPress sources in WordPressSources folder jut only for development reason. I will explain...