Having just got my brand new MacBook Pro, I’ve been setting it up as a development environment (blog post about that to come). I decided to install the new Netbeans 6.9 beta. The main reason for this is the Zend Framework (and Symfony) support.
In the past I have found Netbeans to be pretty good with code-completion when being used with Zend Framework, however with the release of Zend Tool (something I do really like), you’ve had to switch from Netbeans to the command line in order to create the project and then create a new Netbeans project from existing sources. This was a bit of a hassle.
Now, all you need to do is download the Framework, go into the Netbeans preferences > PHP > Zend tab, Zend script box should point to the zf script (from within the bin directory of the ZF downloading). On Mac and Linux it wants the zf.sh file (on Windows it will probably want the zf.bat file, although not tested). Once that has been set up, you can now create brand new Zend Framework projects from within Netbeans, and it preconfigures everything for you. Lovely!
There are 3 comments on "Netbeans 6.9 Beta + Zend Framework"
Hi Rick,
Thanks for the post.
Having recently started to really explore Zend Framework, including Zend Tool, it’s great to hear that Netbeans supports integration with it. Zend Tool already significantly simplified the process of creating a project structure and creating controllers, and now to have an IDE which takes the typing of the commands away, is there anything left for us developers to do? Maybe I should say that quieter. The reality of it is, the less time faffing around with our tools means more time working on the solution, and less time wasted. +1 to Netbeans.
sensible
Hey Rick, just learning zend framework. I like it alot. I downloaded the current build for netbeans and configured it fine. One thing that I liked in Eclipse was the popup window that showed the docbloc commenting info for a function/class etc… Is this possible with netbeans?
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juju
Rick, thanks for the post. This was exactly the info I needed to get Zend up and running in Netbeans.