Recent Posts by Petr Pisl

NetBeans 6.5 Milestone 1 is now available. What is new in the Milestone 1 is mentioned in this document. Regarding PHP support the M1 contains new features, which were already mentioned on this blog and also many bug fixes.  The PHP distribution has only 15 MB download size and I suggest to use M1 before Early Access. We are waiting for your feedback. It's important for us to know, how you work, what is your workflow and what you need and expect. Help us to create useful PHP...

There have been published an article with title "Get the Latest from the PHP Development Team Blog" at www.netbeans.org  site, where we explain how and why this blog was started. 

In my last entry I have described, how to install PHP, Apache and MySQL in Ubuntu 8.04 from Ubuntu repositories. NetBeans IDE is written in Java, so before installing NetBeans you have to install Java. This entry is about how to install Java environment in Ubuntu. You can find a few Java environment like openJDK, Cacao or Kaffe in the default Ubuntu repositories. I have tried to run NetBeans on top of openJDK withouth a problem, I haven't try Cacao or others. I suggest to use...

This article is about installing PHP environment - PHP, Apache, MySQL and xDebug in Ubuntu 8.04. Everything is available through the default Ubuntu repositories, so it should not be hard. I did this last week, when I prepared a machine for our UI study. It's expected that you have already installed Ubuntu or you use VirtuaBox and you have installed Ubuntu as a virtual machine. Open a terminal. You will need to install all the parts as root, so you have to execute commands...

Last week I described in the article How to set up NetBeans to treat files with an extension as PHP files, how to do it in the Early Access build and I mentioned that the NetBeans core team is working on simplifying the procedure. And now the feature is in the build. If you download a continual or daily build, you can see the Open As ... action in the context menu of files that are not recognized by default. If you invoke it, then the Open As ... dialog opens and you can...

Today I have committed a code which improves error messages that are displayed in the PHP editor. It is not still perfect and there can be implemented better algorithm for displaying more clever messages, but now it's much better then it was. Up until now our editor displayed just one message "Syntax Error". The picture displays a few examples.

Sometimes people ask me for an advice, how to set up NetBeans to treat some file with certain extension as PHP file.  For example .phpt files are test files for testing PHP runtime, which contains PHP code and NetBeans Early Access treats these files only as a text files. There are steps how to do it: Invoke Options dialog (Tools -> Options). In Options dialog press Advance Options button to display Advance Options dialog. Browse  IDE Configuration -> System -> File Types. Expand...