web development - recommendation required

Johnny2Bad · Jan 13, 2011

Hi,

I'm wondering what recommendations you guys have for me for a development suite in the ports collection that I can use to develop a homepage in php and html.

Thanking you in advance,
Jonathan.

Pushrod · Jan 14, 2011

One option is
www/quanta

I think a lot of people do not use an IDE for small PHP projects.

pauloperes · Jun 29, 2011

Did you see Aptana?

drhowarddrfine · Jun 29, 2011

My little company uses vim and a browser with no issue for seven years.

fonz · Jun 29, 2011

Johnny2Bad said:
I'm wondering what recommendations you guys have for me for a development suite

My recommendation is to forget about suites and just get the tools together that you need:

A text editor of your choice (vim, emacs, nedit, pico, whatever floats your editing boat).
A web browser, preferably several: Firefox and Opera and Chrome/Chromium (if that's available for FreeBSD) and if possible MSIE in a VM or on an actual Windows box. And maybe some other less often used ones, too.
A good graphics editor, such as the GIMP. Gozer might come in handy in some cases, too.
A terminal, of which there are also several to choose from: xterm, aterm, (u)rxvt, Eterm, kterm or even (a) virtual console(s).
You'll probably want to install some font sets from the ports collection and ttmkfdir so you can use TrueType fonts.

Hope this helps,

Fonz

vermaden · Jun 29, 2011

Johnny2Bad said:
I'm wondering what recommendations you guys have for me for a development suite in the ports collection that I can use to develop a homepage in php and html.

I would get GEANY (devel/geany), works great and is really light, have code snippets and all other whistles from other IDEs.

drhowarddrfine · Jun 29, 2011

fonz said:
My recommendation is to forget about suites and just get the tools together that you need:

Yep. That's our list.

Johnny2Bad · Jun 30, 2011

I actually got a forum up and running on my server using Apche22, php5.. using a simple text editor (gedit) and a lot of testing by trial and error.

Thanks for your comments,
Jonathan.

UNIXgod · Jun 30, 2011

Learn vi()

It's venerable. It's on every UNIX system. Need color look at vim, emacs, or nano/pico.

Taking the time to learn vi regardless of other text editors will ultimately pay off when you end up on a machine which doesn't have your "preferred" text editor but vi is there. It's also a very well thought out and logical editor which is why it's been around over 30 years.

If you haven't used Ruby on Rails I also recommend evaluating that as well.