Dreamweaver killer : Aptana AJAX Code Assist on JavaScript HTML CSS

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Here at osCandy, we use Aptana everyday. One thing sucks though - The php implementation still needs work. So while they’re working that out, we can use phpEclipse to make Aptana better. As a result, we have a full blown PHP ide, with all the benefits of Aptana Javascript IDE + CSS IDE.

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features:

Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
FTP/SFTP uploading, downloading and synchronization
JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code
Error and warning notification for your code
Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
Cross-platform support
Free and open source licensed under the Eclipse Public License, v1.0.

Download Aptana for Windows

Download Aptana for Macintosh

Download Aptana for Linux

Download Aptana Plugin

Get instructions on how to do it here!

As a base we will use Eclipse you can download it here. You should use the current releasee version (3.2.2 at the moment), but if you want to have a plenty of new features you can choose current stable dev version (3.3M6 at the moment).

For Javascript we have Aptana of course. We don’t need full package wich includes eclipse, so we will download only the update files here.

For PHP we will use PHPEclipse. Go to downloads page choose version, and then download bin.dist archive.

Ok now we have all what we need. Let’s install it.

1. Install eclipse by unzipping the archive in a folder somewhere in your system. Check if eclipse starts normally.

2. Install Aptana. The aptana update acrhive contains two folders ‘plugins’ and ‘features’, so you need just to paste them to eclipse directory. Check if Aptana works by launchung eclipse and finding ‘Aptana’ perspective, if it exists probably all is working.

3. Install PHPEclipse. You just have to do the same what you did with Aptana archive.

4. For detail description of how to use Eclipse, Aptana and PHPEclise visit their home pages.

5. Enjoy.

take a look at the samples:

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