PDT is the new PHP development plugin for Eclipse, officially recognized and supported by Eclipse.org.

PDT 1.0 is out today and I’m upgrading right now, I just found a cool new feature I want to share with you all, look at the screenshot (I was committing a small file), focus on the red zone and look at the way DIFF is shown:

Can you see that within the same line, changed chars are highlighted? Cool hu? Now everyone can really find the differenced within the same line, not just the whole line! I really like that :)

• I’d hire 5 programmers to finish PHP unicode support in 2 months
• I’d hire 5 programmers to clean up the database drivers and fix some PDO problems within 4 months, so also PHP could have a great DB interface like jdbc or ado
• I’d hire 2 programmers to add a full abstraction layer to Zend_DB
• I’d drop the old Zend Studio and focus on Eclipse PDT
• I’d start a PHP development blog, people need to know where developers are going

This is just my opinion working every day with PHP for many purposes since 7 years.

PS: Surely also SOAP support needs attention but it seems they’re working on it.

This post is nothing more than a reminder to me, ruby.NET is out today, Microsoft is working with Zend to build PHP.NET, is bigM trying to catch developers working with open languages? This surely mean that these languages gained (with python) so much audience and respectability that no one should ignore them.