When comparing phpDesigner vs CodeLobster IDE, the Slant community recommends phpDesigner for most people. In the question“What are the best IDEs or editors for PHP?” phpDesigner is ranked 16th while CodeLobster IDE is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose phpDesigner is:
phpDesigner checks for errors as code is written showing the actual PHP error messges. Code does not need to be run to find missing braces or semicolons.
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Pros
Pro Live error checking
phpDesigner checks for errors as code is written showing the actual PHP error messges. Code does not need to be run to find missing braces or semicolons.
Pro Xdebug support
Xdebug is a PHP extension that adds debugging and profiling capabilities.
Pro Has a free 30-day trial
Pro PHP & JS frameworks support
Includes support for PHP frameworks such as Zend, CodeIgniter, Yii and Symfony and JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, ExtJS, Yui, Dojo. MooTools and Prototype.
Pro Git and SVN integration
Pro CodeLobster IDE supports xDebug integration
Pro CodeLobster IDE has advanced PHP autocomplete
CodeLobster IDE has advanced autocomplete for PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other popular languages.
Pro It works on Windows, Mac and Linux
Pro Advanced support for many popular frameworks
Pro It has many popular color schemes
Pro CodeLobster IDE has internal FTP client
Cons
Con Not free
Not free!
Con SFTP support is somewhat lacking
Socket timeouts aren't handled well and sometimes result in an inability to save remote work.
Con Small development team
The development team consists of one person, Michael Pham, and further development relies solely on his continued interest in the project.