Which IDE do you recommend for php-src development? View as Markdown

Hi

For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried to
use it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly. CLion really
insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support for makefiles.
After trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am ready to try something
else.

So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development? I understand
that people probably have many different preferences but I wondered if
there was something that most php internals developers used. One important
feature would be to easily work with the project running on a docker
container

Thanks in advance!

Carlos

Re-sending because I accidentally didn't reply-all:

I actually use CLion. There was an article that described exactly how to
get php-src working with CLion by Ben Ramsey, so maybe they can chime in:
https://dev.to/ramsey/using-clion-with-php-src-4me0

Jordan

Le 14/09/2024 à 23:44, Barel a écrit :

Hi

For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried
to use it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly.
CLion really insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support
for makefiles. After trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am
ready to try something else.

So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development? I understand
that people probably have many different preferences but I wondered if
there was something that most php internals developers used. One
important feature would be to easily work with the project running on
a docker container

Thanks in advance!

Carlos

Eclipse for C/C++ developers may work as well. I did use it for writing
an xdebug patch and reading the PHP source code.

Regards,

Pierre

Hi Carlos

For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried to use it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly. CLion really insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support for makefiles. After trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am ready to try something else.

So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development? I understand that people probably have many different preferences but I wondered if there was something that most php internals developers used.

I tried to like CLion, but it was extremely laggy for me every time I
tried it. php-src contains some rather large files, and even some dsl
(zend_vm_def.h) that didn't work well at all. I also didn't find a way
to add simple highlighting support for PHP test files.

VSCode works surprisingly well, I've used it for C development for
years. I created a simple guide for setting it up, including gdb. It
shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes. [1]

Zed is also already a decent option that essentially just works out of
the box. Unfortunately, it's currently lacking debugging support. [2]

One important feature would be to easily work with the project running on a docker container

Can't help you there, I don't use Docker for C development.

Ilija

[1] http://php.github.io/php-src/introduction/ides/visual-studio-code.html
[2] https://zed.dev/

[…] One important feature
would be to easily work with the project running on a docker container

You may be interested in https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/15203.

Christoph

Hi

For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried to use
it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly. CLion really
insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support for makefiles.
After trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am ready to try something
else.

So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development?

I use vim. With the ctags plugin, but that's mostly it. Debugging with gdb and valgrind.

I avoid docker, as that had always made it harder to do things.

cheers
Derick

Hi

For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried to
use it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly. CLion really
insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support for makefiles.
After trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am ready to try something
else.

So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development? I understand
that people probably have many different preferences but I wondered if
there was something that most php internals developers used. One important
feature would be to easily work with the project running on a docker
container

Thanks in advance!

Carlos

Answering myself in case someone finds this useful in the future.

Several people recommended VSCode so decided to give it a try. I found this
guide which describes very well what you need to do to get VSCode working
for a php-src project hosted in a docker container. Works brilliantly, I am
able to work with the code in the container using all VSCode features,
including debugging with GDB. Nice!

https://bogomolov.tech/php-extension-development/

Cheers

Carlos

Hi

For C/C++ development I usually use CLion from Jetbrains but I tried to use it with php-src and was unable to get it to work properly. CLion really insists on using CMake and has only quite limited support for makefiles. After trying to get it to work unsuccessfully I am ready to try something else.

So which IDE would you recommend for php-src development? I understand that people probably have many different preferences but I wondered if there was something that most php internals developers used. One important feature would be to easily work with the project running on a docker container

Thanks in advance!

Carlos

I use the Makefile integration with CLion. It works alright. Better
than any other C IDE I've used so far. What things are you struggling
with specifically?