phpDesigner 7.0

Posted on Monday, October 26 2009 @ 15:18 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

phpDesigner 7 is more than just a powerful and lightning fast PHP IDE and PHP Editor - it's also a full-featured HTML, CSS and JavaScript editor with focus on boosting your productivity, facilitating you in learning PHP in an user-friendly environment that makes it enjoyable to use for hours for both beginners and professional developers.

Changelog:

New. JavaScript code completion
New. Support for JavaScript Object-oriented programming (OOP)
New. JavaScript code tip with extended information/documentation
New. Support for user-defined JavaScript functions
New. Support for user-defined JavaScript variables
New. Code Explorer for JavaScript
New. Jump to JavaScript declarations
New. Support for the JavaScript framework ExtJS
New. Support for the JavaScript framework jQuery
New. Support for the JavaScript framework Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
New. Support for the JavaScript framework Dojo
New. Support for the JavaScript framework Prototype
New. Support for the JavaScript framework MooTools
New. Added JavaScript operators to the JavaScript menu
New. Added JavaScript Statements to the JavaScript menu
New. Added JavaScript single line comment to the JavaScript menu
New. Added JavaScript multi-line comment to the JavaScript menu
New. Added History() to the JavaScript menu
New. Code Explorer for CSS
New. Jump to CSS declarations
New. Code completion can now suggest the closing tag for HTML/XHTML
New. Code completion can now suggest the closing tag for XML
New. Inline JavaScript code completion in HTML/XHTML (in events like onclick="...")
New. Inline CSS code completion in HTML/XHTML (style="...")
New. Option to delay the PHP syntax check
New. Added support for SFTP
New. Support for SFTP using password
New. Support for SFTP using key
New. Option to customize the ftp/sftp name in the ftp/sftp manager
New. Added Bookmarks to the Go to menu
New. Support for Google Chrome (browser preview)
New. Support for Microsoft's Bing search engine (Live has been removed)
New. Upgraded to the latest version of HTML Tidy
New. Upgraded to the latest version of PHP (version 5.3) and configured with Xdebug
New. Optimized memory usage on big projects (declarations is now compressed e.g. from 40MB to 15MB for parsed data)
New. Force loading files as UTF-8 (Preferences > General)
New. By default the syntax for PHP is now delayed with 3seconds (previously 1 second)
New. Support for text output (embedded browser - before only support for formatted/html output)
New. Dialog to edit default templates
New. Code completion with supported parameters in the dialog for editing the default templates
New. Option to edit the default HTML/XHTML template
New. Option to edit the default CSS template
New. Option to edit the default XML template
New. Option to edit the default JavaScript template
New. Option to edit the default VBScript template
New. Option to edit the default SQL template
New. Option to edit the default Perl template
New. Option to edit the default Java template
New. Option to edit the default C# template
New. Option to edit the default Python template
New. Option to edit the default Ruby template
New. Option to edit the default Smarty template
New. Option to edit the default No syntax template
New. Save to FTP button added to the File toolbar
New. Copy to FTP button added to the File toolbar
New. By default the Keep text is now on (Preferences > Editor > Code completion)
New. Added Go to menu (Go to declarations etc.)
New. Select file from the menu File has now been renamed to Go to file and moved to the menu Go to
New. Project files has been renamed to Go to project file and moved to the menu Go to
New. Code tip now supports overloaded functions
New. Code completion now support catch(Exception $e) // $e-> will hold Exception class
New. Support for 'user initialized' functions (similar as variables)
New. Support for function parameters initialized by PhpDoc keyword @param
New. Code tip now supports multiple __construct
New. Support for class completion for variables in local scope from global namespace (global $a; $a->[CC])
New. Link to Facebook in the menu About
New. Link to Support in the menu About
New. Panels button added on the Window toolbar
New. Color selector
New. Added comment to the CSS style block (menu CSS)
New. Added CSS comment /* */
New. @Import CSS file
New. Added wizard for creating new sibling CSS Selector
New. Added wizard for creating new child CSS Selector
New. Added wizard for creating new pseudo CSS Selector
New. Link to support in the menu Help
New. Link to the Facebook Page for phpDesigner
New. Link to Tutorials and Resources
New. If you open a file without a file extension it will now use by default the intelligent syntax highlighter (preferences)
New. On drop files on editor area you can now set it to either open the file or insert it as a url (preferences)
New. Option to disable the JavaScript code completion and code tip (preferences)
New. Option to skip the Print Preview (preferences)
New. Option to insert the current file directory in the Search dialog
New. Added support for more special characters in the special characters dialog
New. Support for TortoiseSVN "Resolve"
New. Support for TortoiseSVN "Log"
New. Swedish language file added
New. Croatian language file updated
New. Spanish language file updated
Fixed. By default the find/replace dialog will automatic close after the search
Fixed. Find/replace in all opened documents (previously it marked all files as modified)
Fixed. Code beautifier for PHP (before it removes the space between the variable and the variable type)
Fixed. Scrolling with the mouse inside the embedded browser in phpDesigner
Fixed. Configuring the output directory for Xdebug profiler only if php.ini exists
Fixed. The PHP window is now only displayed if there are errors/warnings on Run
Fixed. Support for changing colors for special tags like <?php ?>
Fixed. Reload project renamed to Rescan Project
Fixed. Search bar inside the embedded browser has been removed use instead the default one in the web browser
Fixed. Better cleanup of unused tmp files when debugging and running files
Fixed. The Preview and Run button has been merged into just Run
Fixed. If file is not modified the tmp file on Run will be ~ + filename
Fixed. If file is modified the tmp file on Run will be ~~ + filename
Fixed. Jump to declaration improved for especially self::/parent::/$this->/$someObj->
Fixed. Application manager
Fixed. Better resolving object properties
Fixed. Better visibility in code tip for parent/self/$this/__construct/extends
Fixed. Better support in code completion and code tip for parent:__constructor()
Fixed. Class body completion for interface methods
Fixed. Fix constructor support for build-in objects
Fixed. Renamed code completion option "If no match found, select the first item" to "Auto-select first item"
Fixed. If file contains error the debugger (Xdebug) will now alert why it cannot start and jump to the error
Fixed. Better text/icons for Web search and searching in the PHP manual
Fixed. Export CSharp syntax highlighter (Preferences)
Fixed. Import CSharp syntax highlighter (Preferences)
Fixed. Export VBScript syntax highlighter (Preferences)
Fixed. Import VBScript syntax highlighter (Preferences)
Fixed. Export CSS syntax highlighter (Preferences)
Fixed. Import CSS syntax highlighter (Preferences)
Fixed. Clear all search marks in opened files
Fixed. Auto-closing html/xhtml tags is now by default on
Fixed. Default path for the syntax check for PHP
Fixed. Inserting a phpDoc from the toolbar
Fixed. phpDoc indention on pressing Enter
Fixed. Bookmark positions after performing a search/replace
Fixed. Strip HTML/XHTML tags
Fixed. Printing and dimming
Fixed. Setting the Xdebug profiler output path (support for Vista and Windows 7)
Fixed. Default bold <b> has been replaced with <strong>
Fixed. Default italic <i> has been replaced with <em>
Minor fixes and improvements