Develop PHP Applications Faster

I use Visual Studio 2010 and T4 templates, very fast development cycle.
 
So any coders here like to make some quick money?

You should be good in PHP, Ajax, and Jquery :) Kinda simple one :)

Add me on Skype :)
 
Well, my machine runs Gentoo and I love the various features of VIM, so I use VIM for all my programming. Once you get used to it, it speeds things up quite a bit.
I did use PHPStorm for awhile, but I wasn't learning as much when I was programming due to auto completes.
 
To speed up your work start using a good IDE like Eclipse/Aptana/NetBeans or one of the best text editor in the world TextMate.
If you want to creat app very fast learn how to use Symfony/Zend/Kohana/Yii or any other PHP framework.
Always put comments into your code - i know that iw will slow down you a little bit BUT it will help you later.
Docs comments are very useful if you are using good IDE.

If you have more time for learning process - learn how to use Vi its great editor for everything.
 
I'll second Netbeans. I use it for PHP & Java development.

Netbeans IDE
Firefox with addons:
- Web developer toolbar
- Firebug
- ColorZilla

Use a framework like Yii (recommended) or CodeIgniter or Kohana or whatever so you don't have to code everything yourself but reuse what others did.

Use the code templates functionality in Netbeans so for example you write "fore" press TAB and get the code for a foreach. Or write "myiter" (mysql iterator) hit TAB and get the whole mysql_query... while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc) ...

Good coders code 10 times as fast than average coders. Trust me on that.
 
Netbeans IDE
Firefox with addons:
- Web developer toolbar
- Firebug
- ColorZilla

Use a framework like Yii (recommended) or CodeIgniter or Kohana or whatever so you don't have to code everything yourself but reuse what others did.

Use the code templates functionality in Netbeans so for example you write "fore" press TAB and get the code for a foreach. Or write "myiter" (mysql iterator) hit TAB and get the whole mysql_query... while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc) ...

Good coders code 10 times as fast than average coders. Trust me on that.
I second the first half of this - Netbeans and Firefox. Never heard of Yii, but jquery stuff is pretty good with ajax, which is just a POST call. Any framework can handle it. Key thing is to have a system for setting up where the ajax call is going.

You'll also want to view the Firebug 'Net' tab to see what was posted and what was returned (or if an error was returned).
 
I just use notepad++ and ftp. I think writing tests as you write code will actually speed up the work.
 
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I can;t believe you guys use notepad. Coda for MAC 10x better.
 
Is this an IDE specific question ?

well, i would like to make some recommendations.

Use PHPStorm as your IDE.

also use lots of open source code and frameworks. for example codeigniter for PHP and definitely jQuery for javascript. that will speed up your coding a lot.
 
Notepad ++ is my favourite editor..
 
php with curl = multithreads

may be useful :)

and i'm using ultraedit :)
 
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