PRADO Framework Support

[sonemonu]

Hi all,

I created this topic with the purpose of that all us put a reply with his vote a favor of implement Support
for the PRADO Framework on the next Version of NetBeans 6.5, that would be a dream come true!


Related topics on the PRADO Forum:
http://www.pradosoft.com/forum/index.php/topic,10762.0.html
http://www.pradosoft.com/forum/index.php/topic,10605.0.html

PRADO Website:
www.pradosoft.com

[ppisl]

Hello,

the basic support can be done very quickly. Unfortunately I don't know PRADO framework, so tell me what you need / want. The module for supporting PRADO can be developed independently on the NetBeans releases.

Regards,
Petr

[sonemonu]

What I would like (and I think everyone that used PRADO) is having a good autocompletion while working with the PRADO Templates.
There is something done for DreamWeaver, Eclipse, and InType but those are outdated.

The templates are inside the following directories of the PRADO Framework:

Web/UI/WebControls
Web/UI/ActiveWebControls

I attached the currently DreamWeaver - PRADO Templates (outdated).
I attached the currently InType Editor - PRADO Templates.
I attached the currently Eclipse - PRADO Templates (outdated).

Topic about IDE/Editor for PRADO:
http://www.pradosoft.com/forum/index.php/board,12.0.html

About Web UI Controls
http://www.pradosoft.com/docs/manual/li_System.Web.UI.WebControls.html

About Web UI Active Controls
http://www.pradosoft.com/docs/manual/li_System.Web.UI.ActiveControls.html

To download the PRADO Framework
http://www.pradosoft.com/download/

[Thanhd]

I am trying out Netbean for PHP and would love support for the PRADO framework to be implemented.

[izvictor]

Hello,
I'm a project engineer in France , PRADO support in netbeans could be very usefull. For the moment there is not many IDE(s) that support completely PRADO framework and PRADO auto-completition tags. There is PHPEdit and PHPed, but they are commercial and windows only, so a netbeans plugin could make much more easier PHP development on any systems.

Thank you.
Greetings from France.

[Petr Pisl]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm planing to look at this framework.

Regards,
Petr

[aaron_sanford]

I'd like to add my vote in support of this idea. I've been using Netbeans quite extensively for Prado development, and robust official support for this framework would be a huge boon.
Given the following trends:
>desire for more mature IDE-support seems to be growing within the Prado community,

>increased adoption of Prado generally(I've personally noticed an uptick in Prado usage here among suppliers within the SE Michigan / Metro Detroit Area),

>recent maturation of Netbeans as a top-notch PHP development tool,

I could see it attracting a significant number of new users and contributors to Netbeans.

[clementchen]

Hi, it's my pleasure to vote PRADO support in NetBeans. I began to use NetBeans few months ago, and am quite glad to see it support more languages such as Ruby (RoR) and PHP. PRADO is a special framework in web development with PHP. Its documentations are rich and its forum is quite friendly to all people. My problem when learning it is that I couldn't memorize thost many methods/properties all the time. So I believe that NetBeans with PRADO support will win more and more PHP users to join!

[mp]

I just want to say - it would be a great feature.

[knut]

On behalf of the PRADO Development Team I just want to say that native support for the PRADO Framework in NetBeans would be great and could be an addition that adds significant value to PHP developers currently using or evaluating NetBeans as their IDE of choice.

Some background information about this topic:

In 2006 Jason Minard started this thread on the PRADO forum where Zend showed some interest in creating a RAD tool for PHP. Right after that at php|tek 2006 Andi Gutmans gave a keynote demonstrating an experimental RAD tool for PHP codenamed phpBlox and Jayson Minard wrote the article "Dipping a Toe into Rapid Application Development for PHP" on Zend Developer Zone.

After this we haven't heard anything about RAD tools for PHP from Zend.

One year after this (May 2007) Sébastien Hordeaux and WaterProof Software releases PHPEdit 2.12 with PRADO support including syntax highlighting, code insight, jump to declaration and code hinting.

Around the same time CodeGear introduced the first version of Delphi for PHP and open sourced their VCL 4 PHP framework which together seems like the most complete RAD tool for PHP developers to date because of it's visual designer.

Looking at the list of PHP Frameworks the only frameworks that compete directly with PRADO when it comes to event driven programming is QPHP and VCL 4 PHP.

I hope this was helpful information for you to see the possibilities (check out some quotes from PRADO developers)

[Petr Pisl]

Thanks for the information. I'm going to look at the PRADO framework. It
looks like there are many people, who are asking for this.

But as I have already written somewhere, is not possible to add the
support into the final version of NetBeans 6.5 . As the best way, how it
can be done, is to start to create the support outside the main release,
create something usable for NetBeasn 6.5 and place it on the NetBeans
6.5 update center. After this stabilize the support and add more
features for the next version of NetBeans.

But there is condition, that I will have enough time to do it or someone
from community could help me with this.

Thanks,
Petr

[sonemonu]

[Petr Pisl]

Cool. Do you have any experience with Java? I can take care about the
NetBeans process and set up the project in NetBeans repository.

On the other hand we should start with a document that will describe,
what the support should do. Collect information and evaluate, what can
be done. So we can start with this document. What do you think?

Regards,
Petr

[sonemonu]

Yes, my experience in Java is in J2SE (swing, threads, collections, generics, sockets, jdbc, jpa).

I'm agree with create the document containing the initials requirements
about what should do the plugin as first instance.
We can classify the tasks by stages, giving them different priorities.

Greetings from Cartagena / Colombia
Roger Padilla

[knut]

I've started on a requirements specification here:
http://www.pradosoft.com/wiki/index.php/PRADO_IDE_Requirements

Please add your requirements here and we can use this thread to discuss it.

Regards,
Knut Urdalen