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VS.Php 2.8 Release Candidate Available

Sun, 2010-01-17 19:24

I have updated the release candidate for VS.Php 2.8, please give it a try and let me know if you find issues with it.

Here is a list of what's new in VS.Php 2.8:

- Support for PHP 5.3 runtime
- Intellisense support for PHP namespaces
- Class viewer shows namespaces. Also improved search in class viewer.
- Improved XDebug engine (much more stable)
- Zend Framework 1.9.7
- Apache 2.2
- Support for magic methods (@method)
- Much improve intellisense
- Improve support for IE8 on Visual Studio 2005
- Tons of bug fixes

The release candidate build can be downloaded on the download page:

http://www.jcxsoftware.com/download.php

juanc says:

Sun, 2010-01-17 22:03

Please note that the XDebug build included with VS.Php has some fixes that are still not available in the official beta release.

I submitted a patch to the XDebug developer and hopefully it will be integrated. In the meantime, I recommend that you copy the version in the VS.Php in case you need to use it with your WAMP or WIMP server.

ICOM says:

Mon, 2010-01-18 14:09

Unable to install:
"This installation package could not be opened"

ICOM says:

Mon, 2010-01-18 14:19

Finding the msi file in my temp internet files and running directly appears to be working.

brian.travis says:

Wed, 2010-01-20 12:53

Will PHP 5.2 still be available in VS.Php 2.8? I still need 5.2 for Drupal 6.

juanc says:

Thu, 2010-01-21 07:26

Are you aware of any compatibility issues with PHP 5.3? I read those minor issues were fixed. But I haven't tried myself.

As far as PHP 5.2, we won't include it with the IDE. The main reason was XDebug. I had to build it myself to fix some issues and I needed VC9. PHP 5.3 is the only version using VC9.

brian.travis says:

Mon, 2010-01-25 06:51

There are some incompatibilities with PHP 5.3 on Drupal 6. Supposedly, the core was fixed in Drupal 6.14, but I'm still finding some problems. And there are definitely incompatibilities in many of the contributed modules.

So I don't even want to consider upgrading to PHP 5.3 until Drupal 7.

Natsuwind says:

Thu, 2010-01-21 22:45

my vs2008 use black background themes,php function is displayed black,can not to see code.