[Info] Extension Writer Tools

[brunoais]

Git extensions- Free GUI for git. Personally, more complete and closer to git's methodology than smartgit. Basically, it tells you everything and gives you a GUI for almost any function of git without doing anything on its own.

[lavachapi]

Geany works trough Fink so that isn't a real Mac editor.
There are free Mc apps like Komodo Edit, TextWrangler but I'll stick with SubEthaEdit.

[Wolfsblvt]

I am using Visual Studio and the Extension "PHP Tools for Visual Studio", wich is somewhat really cool.
It is not free though. You can get Visual Studio if you are student for free, otherwise there is a new free version. Haven't tried it out yet.
And you also have to pay for the extension after a test period, but for me it is really worth it.

I really like the direct integration in the best IDE I've ever used. Maybe that's cause I use it at work, but since I use this, I've improved many of my development processes very drastically.

[RMcGirr83]

/me gives Rich some reading glasses (was already under "Text Editors" but would appreciate a link to the mentioned plugin)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare/

[DavidIQ]

Thanks. List updated.

[Mick2015]

nice list of tools, just want to recommend this free tool Called USB Webserver for local server via USB

What is USBWebserver?

USBWebserver is a combination of the popular webserver software: Apache, MySQL, Php and PhpMyAdmin. With USBWebserver it is possible to develop and show your php websites, everywhere and anytime The advantage of USBWebserver is, you can use it from USB of even CD

USBWebserver is perfect for:

Show a offline version of your website
Anywhere and anytime develop php websites
No need for expensive hosting
Working at multiple locations at projects
A good test before putting your website online
And many more

Website - http://www.usbwebserver.net/
Download - http://www.usbwebserver.net/en/download.php


EDIT
Ive jsut installed phpbb 3.1.2 on this hadny little program without any problems, ive attached the iamge shoing you

testusbserver.png

Aswell if any one want any help setting this tool up with phpbb3.1.2 just let me know i'll create a nice tutaoil for the community

[brunoais]

Thanks. List updated.

git extensions is not in the list. Is that on purpose?

[DavidIQ]

Thanks. List updated.

git extensions is not in the list. Is that on purpose?

No. I simply missed it. Obrigado!

List updated.

[roelandaernoudts]

Another useful tool is vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/
To easily set up a dev environment

[martti]

Handy Linux command line tools:

A possibility to cleanup a repository. (with git-stripspace)

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git ls-files | while read file ; do
    git stripspace < "$file" | sponge "$file"
done

All empty spaces at the end of lines are removed and double empty lines as well.
git-stripspace does the cleaning, git-ls-files safely selects all the files from the repository (and leaves the .git directory alone). sponge from moreutils makes it possible to use a file as input and output at the same time.

A possibility to replace text in a repository. (with sed)

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git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/search-text/replace-text/g'

Edit: I didn't take into account non-text files, like images, for this commands; so be careful.

[CaptainHypertext]

My IDE of choice: NetBeans - Works great with BB and is awesome for project management and debugging...once you get it set up. Don't know how I ever lived without it.

MySQL manager: HeidiSQL - An open-source, super versatile sql editor. It's just so snappy and fast. It makes sql so easy and intuitive.

Now I wait for them to pay me...

[brunoais]

Another useful tool is vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/
To easily set up a dev environment

How does that help with extension writing?

[MuhClaren]

Aptana Studio is really good. I used to use Geany, but now I wouldn't give up Aptana for anything... probably... well, ok, maybe for a robotic monkey that can cook, and accompany me on my quests to that dangerous place called 'outdoors'.

Aptana is a fork of Eclipse, trimmed down and polished up, focusing on web technologies almost exclusively. The built-in goodies like the SFTP using key auth is nice, as is the configurable syntax highlighting / coloring. My only complaint is that I haven't found a solution to adapt the syntax highlighting & code assist to play nicely with PHPBB. One would think that defining a few custom rules for syntax would be easy-peasy. Wrong.

[Sajaki]

Sourcetree, a free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac.
http://www.sourcetreeapp.com

[DavidIQ]

Added the last two suggestions to the list.

Another useful tool is vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/
To easily set up a dev environment

How does that help with extension writing?

I'm wondering the same...