Hello,

I am searching a stable and free IDE with auto completion and code highlighting, which works with the SilverStripe Framework. The only topics I found were pretty old. So I wonder wether there is a better solution now. I tried Aptana 3.0. The code highlighting is ok. But it only shows autocompleting when I create page types. And it only displays when I am typing in the superclass.

I also tried the latest Eclipse classic version + PDT but I am not sure how to configure it.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

my weapon of choice is Netbeans.
It's free, stable and quite powerful, so give it a try :-)

If I recall right, Php autocomplete for SilverStripe projects worked without any configuration, but you'll have to "teach" the IDE how to handle .ss files...

Cheers

Previous discussion here...
http://www.silverstripe.org/general-questions/show/7116

and I have reverted to using TextPad (and vi) but whenever I need to debug something (above and beyond a couple of debug show / log messages) I still use netbeans.

Thanks for the help.

It works better now (in Aptana and NetBeans). But I still won't get code completion in the *.ss files. Is it possible to get code completion for $Layout $Content etc. and <% include Menu(2) %> <& end_control &> etc. ?

All you can do for .ss files is to associate them to HTML files...

But code completion for SilverStripe's template language is not possible without a plugin.
And as far as I know, there is none unfortunately.

Some time ago, I tried to write a netbeans plugin for ss-templates, based on the Php-Twig plugin, but I failed miserably on the parser/lexer stuff... *sigh*

Cheers

Too bad. However thanks a lot. It seems you are Netbeans user right? But I am used to Eclipse shortcuts because of Android development. So I actually prefer Aptana 3.0. And the only thing that won't work at the moment code completion at a certain point. It's just optimization, but it would be great if it works. I posted the problem I have in stackoverflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7806907/no-code-completion-in-aptana-3-0-after-returning-fieldset-through-parent-static

In a few sentences:

I initialize a variable with:
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();

and won't get code completion for $fields afterwards. But if I initialize a variable this way:
$fields = new FieldSet;

it works perfectly.

Yepp, I'm a NetBeans nut...

But right know i sit in front of a machine with eclipse+Aptana Studio 3.0 plugin, so I'll mess around a bit and maybe I can find something :-)

[Edit] well, and I have the same results like you...

Thanks, at least I know I am not the only one with the problem. I don't think we both mess up the Aptana installation. I hope there will be an update soon.