Choosing IDE for Symfony Development

When you are getting into Symfony development, you might ask yourself, which PDT would make your Symfony development life easier. There are several most popular IDE options that create production environment for your Symfony projects. Let’s linger on the most common and discussed IDEs in the developers community, which are used by many software development companies.

Outline on IDEs for Symfony Development

• PHPEdit is a commercial IDE that has special support for Symfony development tasks. PHPEdit allows web developers to facilitate YAML-file handling. This IDE makes development easier for entry-level Symfony developers as it gives an opportunity to visualize command-line tasks via special wizards. Moreover, PHPEdit IDE has also handy debugging tools that accelerate development and convenient navigation with link routing of the components.
• Eclipse is an open source IDE, which Symfony developers use as a production environment for their projects. With the Symfony2 plugin installed, development, debugging and deployment becomes easier. Eclipse IDE + Symfony2 plugin allow developers to transform PHP project into a Symfony project, reducing coding time to insignificant figure; to work with wizards, making the process easier, to optimize the work with Twig templates and many other things.
• NetBeans is an open source IDE, leveraged by many Java web developers. At the same time it creates production environment for PHP projects, including Symfony development solutions, as well as Groovy, C++  and JavaScript. Web developers can use code templates when working with NetBeans IDE and use an autocomplete feature for properties and methods.
• Komodo IDE is a professional IDE, which provides support for PHP, Perl, Python and other languages, and can be used in Symfony development projects. It has quite convenient debugging tools and enables faster development and elegant code due to simple-in-use code editor and syntax check.
• PHPStorm is one of the prime IDEs for Symfony development, though distributed under commercial license. It has a wide support of Twig templating engine, provides efficient command line tool, debugging and unit testing tools.
• Textmate/BBEdit are editors that some of Symfony developers give their preferences to. Despite the fact that they are considered to be the old school, they might be almost as efficient as IDEs, when leveraged by developers with a skillful touch.

As you may see there are plenty of IDEs that accelerate and facilitate Symfony development process and create productive environment for development, deployment and debugging of applications. Web developers just need to choose the best-suited for their coding practices.