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I am searching for a good IDE for drupal 6 module development.

I have tested a lot of softwares

For example komodo IDE 7 is good but it doesn't have a compatible drupal extension. also Aptana, visual studio and dreamwaver cs5 were other softwares

This is very important for me that the IDE software (+ plugin) supports auto complete drupal hook function + PHP structures and keywords.

Can you guide me.

thanks a lot

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Questions about "which is the best" are subjective and not appropriate for this site. Consider writing down your needs for an IDE and asking if there is an IDE that meets such needs instead. – Patrick Kenny Apr 12 '12 at 13:47
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If Visual Studio is genuinely a viable option for you then I'd use that. I've used pretty much every IDE in existence at one time or another over the past 10 years and nothing has ever come even remotely close to it. I know MS are evil but they do IDEs right :) – Clive♦ Apr 12 '12 at 13:53
I have searched for plugin for VS2012 but nothing found that supports drupal syntax :( – Mehrdad201 Apr 12 '12 at 20:33

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IDEs each have their own personality; if you are already familiar with one of the major IDEs, it's probably easiest to use that for Drupal as well.

The development tools page on Drupal.org takes awhile to read through but it includes instructions for configuring Dreamweaver, Emacs, Netbeans, Vim, Eclipse, and many others.

The two most common of the big IDEs in the Drupal community are probably Netbeans and Eclipse.

If you want to quickly jump into development, there's Drupal Quickstart, a free virtualbox virtual machine that already has Netbeans and Eclipsed pre-configured for working on Drupal 6 and 7.

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I downloaded netbeans 7 and tried to install 1230700865973_org-netbeans-modules-php-drupal-module.nbm but it seems this plugin is not supported in netbeans 7 – Mehrdad201 Apr 12 '12 at 14:27
Also I tried to install netbeans 6.5 in my windows 7 64 bit. even though I have installed jdk 6, when I try to install netbeans 6.5 I face jdk not found or your jdk is not supported error messages. – Mehrdad201 Apr 12 '12 at 14:29
Did you try the NDDT plugin? I have it working on my Mac in Netbeans 7: nddt.hollyit.net – Patrick Kenny Apr 12 '12 at 15:20
NDDT plugin is for drupal ? Does it support drupal APIs and keywords ? – Mehrdad201 Apr 12 '12 at 16:24
Yes. NDDT- Netbeans Drupal Development Tool. It includes quick API lookup and Drush integration. – Patrick Kenny Apr 13 '12 at 1:01
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