Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

So in a recent symfony-zone article about “the best Symfony IDE: PHPEdit“, the author recommended using PHPEdit.   Problem is PHPEdit doesn’t have a Mac OS X version according to their requirements page as of this date.

So for now using Zend Studio or BBEdit is probably your best bet.  Haven’t tried Netbeans, but at least one developer I know still uses it.  Of course you could just use vi if all else fails.

One last thing, Zend Studio probably won’t ever have any first party support for symfony being that Zend Studio’s parent company has their own framework; so I would’t hold my breath for that.

The Definitive Guide to symfony

Well after my last book, I’m now reading The Definitive Guide to symfony.

My new job has me working with the symfony Framework instead of the Zend Framework I used to use.

Here’s an excerpt from the book:

“Why ‘symfony‘ and not ‘FooBarFramework’? Because Fabien wanted a short name containing an s, as in Sensio, and an f, as in framework–easy to remember and not associated with another development tool. Also, he doesn’t like capital letters. symfony was close enough, even if not completely English, and it was also available as a project name. The other alternative was ‘baguette’.“