From the course: PHP: Choosing a PHP Editor
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Reasons to use an IDE instead of a text editor for PHP development - PHP Tutorial
From the course: PHP: Choosing a PHP Editor
Reasons to use an IDE instead of a text editor for PHP development
- [Instructor] Modern text editors offer some powerful features for developers and you may well find that you can go quite a long way before you decide to switch to a full fledged IDE. I personally put off using an IDE over a text editor for quite a long time. In some ways the simplicity of a text editor means you can just get on and focus on writing code without the distraction of some of the more advanced features offered by IDEs. This can mean that you end up doing things the long way around, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. For example, you may get a better idea of what is happening under the hood when you're forced to use a terminal to work with version control rather than relying on a Gooey built into an IDE. The other side of this is that you may end up getting in some bad habits which an IDE would prevent you from getting into. For example, if your text editor is not great at formatting PHP, you may…
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