Padre is the Perl IDE – written in and for Perl, this is what most of you know.
Padre has basic support for other languages, mostly syntax highlighting, but we’re going to change this.
A first step, the Padre::Plugin::PHP version 0.02, has been released. This plugin for Padre should make Padre more useful for PHP developers. It includes:
- Syntax highlighting
- Autocomplete features (gives suggestions while typing, improves development speed greatly)
- Configurable PHP interpreter and arguments
- Toggle selection as comment (comment/uncomment selection)
- Auto-cleanup of source code files on save (remove tailing whitespaces, add a final newline if it’s missing)
Many other useful features are provided by Padre itself, but listing them here would be too much for a blog post.
A installation howto for Padre + PHP + Padre::Plugin::PHP will follow soon.
