This is something for all you .NET developers who have a WordPress blog which is in PHP and some time you need to do some PHP work (Like me). Or if you just want to work with PHP on your Visual Studio 2008/2005. jcxsoftware have developed such a Visual Studio Plugin.
It supports PHP4 and PHP5, you will also get Syntax highlighting and Intelisense for the following:
- PHP
- Smarty
- HTML
- JavaScript
- CSS
- XML
- XSLT
You will be able to Debug PHP, JavaScript and .NET all together!!!
After you install it all you have to do is select the appropriate project from the list, as if you were starting to work on a regular .NET application.
When you want to run your application and test it VS 2008/2005 will run a light weight apache server ( similar to the ASP.NET debugging) so you can test you application.
Download the PHP for Visual Studio 2008/2005 from here You get a free 30 day trial, so check it out.
Enjoy
andhapp Said on Sep 17, 2008 :
TBH why would anyone wana use b something as bloated as Visual Studio to do PHP… it does not make sense to me.
Amit Said on Sep 17, 2008 :
I think that for those who are used to the IDE of Visual Studio and are just starting with PHP it is a great help.