This is part of what I learned at Drupal Camp Austin 2011.
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PHP Code Editors on OS X
I have been looking for a decent coding application for OS X. I don’t do it fulltime. And I want something intuitive to use, simple to discover the workflows in, and has syntax highlighting. I do CSS, xHtml and am getting into some PHP. I don’t favor Aquamacs‘ command-line-like interface when saving documents.
I have had a few recommended to me:
- TextWrangler – Free
- Coda
- Espresso
- BBEdit
- HyperEdit
I have been looking at developing some plugins/themes for Drupal (modules) and for WordPress. Being at DrupalCamp Austin 2011.
MAMP Helps
I use MAMP for my local test environment. But I have recently moved beyond just PHP apps. I am also looking at using Tomcat. I would like to mess around with DSpace locally and use Solr also. But I have found a couple of helps for adding things to MAMP.
- Adding Tomcat: http://blog.mirotin.net/22/tomcat-on-mamp-the-simple-way
- Solr: http://listentothis.net/drupal/installing-apache-solr-mac-osx-snow-leopard-drupal/11 [Some more from Drupal.org]
- WordPress MultiSite Subdomains on MAMP: http://perishablepress.com/wordpress-multisite-subdomains-mamp/
- XHProf: While I was in Austin I learned about XHProf for PHP so now I want this too… http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-xhprof-mamp-on-mac-os-106-snow-leopard
- Drush: I also want Drush for working with Drupal. But this does not need to live in the MAMP folder. I just don’t know where else is safe. (I should have more on Drush later.)
One of the problems I am facing is that I really like apps like MacPorts. But I do not want to tinker with the CORE and default setting of my OS X machine. So I find that MAMP is a good alternative, but I can not type a command in the command line and have all the dependencies download automatically. I recently found that I could do something like this with Homebrew…. Never used it before but it looks to be the tool for the job. So I have collected a few tutorials like: installing php5.3, Using an gmail as a smtp server, and setting up solr.