Netbeans 6.9 beta was recently released, here are some of the new features for the PHP editor that are pretty awesome.
The first one is recognizing overridden methods and classes. This feature is great because it allows for better auto completion, and lets you find things faster.
Not only does it recognize that I am extending the class, it recognizes that the function I am writing is overriding a function in the parent class, and provides hints as to what that function did (based on the comments that you *did* write right?).
After you hit enter (because you actually want to override that function, you get this (including a call to parent::functionName()):
There is a little green circular O icon beside your function because it is overriding a parent function (granted this would make more sense if I were using __construct rather than php4 syntax). Hovering over the O tells you which function you are overriding, and where it is. Clicking on that icon will take you to the actual declaration of that function:
You will notice that there is a different green O icon (a square one this time, with a small black arrow. Hovering over that will tell you that the function/class “Is Overridden”. Clicking on it will give you the locations that Netbeans found it to be overridden. Clicking on one of those will take you to the location that it is being overridden.
The second feature that is quite neat is the updated commit dialog.
The first thing you will notice (if you used previous versions of Netbeans) is that they added checkboxes beside the files, much more intuitive than the way it was before (a bunch of drop downs that you would miss if you didn’t know they were there).
You can also now right-click on the files you are committing and there is now an option to view the diff of the file you have selected. Selecting the Diff option will show you the familiar diff view:
The second tab (Textual) will let you create a patch file from your changes:
This new tab also shows up in the Diff view, and you can create patches from the diff between two files (not sure how useful that actually is when they are completely different files), or the changes you have made to a single file.
In addition to the old badges for modified files (blue icon on parent folders, blue text) and new files (blue icon on parent folders, green text), there is now an error badge (red icon on the file) which will show up when there are errors in a file.
There are lots of other new features including ini syntax colouring, more formatting options, go to css declaration, it will display the value of a constant you are using.
There are of course many other new features unrelated to what I do every day, you should go check it out for yourself.
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