Change Log

5. May 2010

• New. French language file updated
• New. Turkish language file updated
• New. Traditional Chinese language file updated
• New. License agreement (updated)
• Fix. Code completion (loading direct instances)
• Fix. Go to declaration (loading direct instances)
• Fix. Display syntax highlighting in the drop-down menu
• Minor fixes and improvements

14. Apr 2010

• New. Upgraded to PHP 5.3.2
• New. Option to disable highlighting the active line, default off (Preferences > Editor)
• New. Show project panel
• New. Always show the project panel when loading a project, default on
• New. Support for resizing the Go to declaration dialog
• New. Added default shortcut alt+ctrl+o for Go to files
• New. Option to set the configuration file php.ini for PHP syntax check
• New. The Layout manager now prompt and ask if phpDesigner 7 is closed before resetting
• New. Czech language file updated
• New. Polish language file updated
• New. French language file updated
• New. Chinese language file updated
• New. Portuguese language file added
• Fix. Date and time dialog
• Fix. File tab visibility when cancelling the close all document command
• Fix. Close all documents
• Fix. Search overrides the bookmark indicators
• Fix. Support for more than 1024 characters editor width (Preferences > Editor)
• Fix. Removed built-in shortcut for column mode
• Fix. Shorten the highlighter names on the editor toolbar
• Fix. Disabled the url dialog when typing <a href=””…> (for faster typing)
• Fix. PHP syntax check now uses the same installation as debugging by default
• Fix. If there is no warning or errors generated by the HTML Tidy the panel will not be showed
• Fix. The HTML Tidy now works with Windows 7
• Minor fixes and improvements

03. February 2010

• New. New created files are marked as modified (optional)
• New. Insert images from the file browser as html/css tags
• New. Insert images from the file system as html/css tags
• New. Upgraded to PHP 5.3.1
• New. Upgraded Xdebug to 2.0.5
• New. Syntax check for PHP now checks for missing ;
• New. Run now support PHP scripts (previously it only supported HTML)
• New. Option to hide the Editor toolbar from the menu View
• New. Option to hide the Debug button on the Editor toolbar from the menu View
• New. Option to hide the Run button on the Editor toolbar from the menu View
• New. Option to hide the Localhost button on the Editor toolbar from the menu View
• New. Option to hide the Syntax highlighter button on the Editor toolbar from the menu View
• New. File tab (select before close)
• New. Code explorer for PHP now lists variables inside functions
• New. Keep text when auto inserting brackets
• New. The HTML tag <u> has been replaced with <ins>
• New. Wine compatible (linux/ubuntu)
• New. Upgraded connection to jQuery 1.4
• New. Added support for connecting to jQuery UI 1.7.2
• New. JavaScript functions from the code competition will now include ()
• New. Added Go to Declaration to the Go to menu
• New. Support for changing the shortcut for the Go to Declaration function
• New. Macedonian language file added
• New. Greek language file added
• New. Lithuanian language file added
• New. Croatian language file added
• New. Italian language file updated
• New. Simplified Chinese language file updated
• New. Hungarian language file updated
• New. Turkish language file updated
• New. Spanish language file updated
• New. French language file updated
• New. Polish language file updated
• Fix. Inserting JavaScript functions from the Code Completion will now also add ()
• Fix. Run PHP scripts without Xdebug
• Fix. Default extension in the Save dialog when saving CSS files
• Fix. URL in the jQuery menu
• Fix. Code completion for JavaScript is now case-sensitive
• Fix. Disabled the automatic trigger for the code completion inside strings and comments
• Fix. Normal has been replaced with Paragraph on the Format toolbar
• Fix. Multi-select in Open project file when using arrows up/down
• Fix. Application manager
• Fix. Go to declaration
• Fix. Removed the welcome screen
• Fix. Improved the load order of last opened files on upstart
• Fix. Better information/hint if the PHP/Xdebug won't start
• Fix. Duplicated classes in $[variable] = new [Code Completion]
• Fix. Removed the shortcut ctrl+alt+c for more colors as it conflicts with the Polish keyboard (new installation)
• Fix. Removed the shortcut ctrl+alt+o for go to file as it conflicts with the Polish keyboard (new installation)
• Fix. Displaying multiple FTP/SFTP sites
• Minor fixes and improvements

07. October 2009

• New. JavaScript code completion
• New. Support for JavaScript Object-oriented programming (OOP)
• New. JavaScript code tip with extended information/documentation
• New. Support for user-defined JavaScript functions
• New. Support for user-defined JavaScript variables
• New. Code Explorer for JavaScript
• New. Jump to JavaScript declarations
• New. Support for the JavaScript framework ExtJS
• New. Support for the JavaScript framework jQuery
• New. Support for the JavaScript framework Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
• New. Support for the JavaScript framework Dojo
• New. Support for the JavaScript framework Prototype
• New. Support for the JavaScript framework MooTools
• New. Added JavaScript operators to the JavaScript menu
• New. Added JavaScript Statements to the JavaScript menu
• New. Added JavaScript single line comment to the JavaScript menu
• New. Added JavaScript multi-line comment to the JavaScript menu
• New. Added History() to the JavaScript menu
• New. Code Explorer for CSS
• New. Jump to CSS declarations
• New. Code completion can now suggest the closing tag for HTML/XHTML
• New. Code completion can now suggest the closing tag for XML
• New. Inline JavaScript code completion in HTML/XHTML (in events like onclick=”…”)
• New. Inline CSS code completion in HTML/XHTML (style=”…”)
• New. Option to delay the PHP syntax check
• New. Added support for SFTP
• New. Support for SFTP using password
• New. Support for SFTP using key
• New. Option to customize the ftp/sftp name in the ftp/sftp manager
• New. Added Bookmarks to the Go to menu
• New. Support for Google Chrome (browser preview)
• New. Support for Microsoft's Bing search engine (Live has been removed)
• New. Upgraded to the latest version of HTML Tidy
• New. Upgraded to the latest version of PHP (version 5.3) and configured with Xdebug
• New. Optimized memory usage on big projects (declarations is now compressed e.g. from 40MB to 15MB for parsed data)
• New. Force loading files as UTF-8 (Preferences > General)
• New. By default the syntax for PHP is now delayed with 3seconds (previously 1 second)
• New. Support for text output (embedded browser - before only support for formatted/html output)
• New. Dialog to edit default templates
• New. Code completion with supported parameters in the dialog for editing the default templates
• New. Option to edit the default HTML/XHTML template
• New. Option to edit the default CSS template
• New. Option to edit the default XML template
• New. Option to edit the default JavaScript template
• New. Option to edit the default VBScript template
• New. Option to edit the default SQL template
• New. Option to edit the default Perl template
• New. Option to edit the default Java template
• New. Option to edit the default C# template
• New. Option to edit the default Python template
• New. Option to edit the default Ruby template
• New. Option to edit the default Smarty template
• New. Option to edit the default No syntax template
• New. Save to FTP button added to the File toolbar
• New. Copy to FTP button added to the File toolbar
• New. By default the Keep text is now on (Preferences > Editor > Code completion)
• New. Added Go to menu (Go to declarations etc.)
• New. Select file from the menu File has now been renamed to Go to file and moved to the menu Go to
• New. Project files has been renamed to Go to project file and moved to the menu Go to
• New. Code tip now supports overloaded functions
• New. Support for 'user initialized' functions (similar as variables)
• New. Support for function parameters initialized by PhpDoc keyword @param
• New. Added CSS comment /* */
• New. @Import CSS file
• New. Link to Facebook in the menu About
• New. Link to Support in the menu About
• New. Panels button added on the Window toolbar
• New. Color selector
• New. Added comment to the CSS style block (menu CSS)
• New. Added wizard for creating new sibling CSS Selector
• New. Added wizard for creating new child CSS Selector
• New. Added wizard for creating new pseudo CSS Selector
• New. Link to support in the menu Help
• New. Link to the Facebook Page for phpDesigner
• New. Link to Tutorials and Resources
• New. If you open a file without a file extension it will now use by default the intelligent syntax highlighter (preferences)
• New. On drop files on editor area you can now set it to either open the file or insert it as a url (preferences)
• New. Option to disable the JavaScript code completion and code tip (preferences)
• New. Option to skip the Print Preview (preferences)
• New. Option to insert the current file directory in the Search dialog
• New. Added support for more special characters in the special characters dialog
• New. Support for TortoiseSVN “Resolve”
• New. Support for TortoiseSVN “Log”
• New. Swedish language file added
• New. Croatian language file updated
• New. Spanish language file updated
• Fixed. By default the find/replace dialog will automatic close after the search
• Fixed. Find/replace in all opened documents (previously it marked all files as modified)
• Fixed. Code beautifier for PHP (before it removes the space between the variable and the variable type)
• Fixed. Scrolling with the mouse inside the embedded browser in phpDesigner
• Fixed. Configuring the output directory for Xdebug profiler only if php.ini exists
• Fixed. The PHP window is now only displayed if there are errors/warnings on Run
• Fixed. Support for changing colors for special tags like <?php ?>
• Fixed. Reload project renamed to Rescan Project
• Fixed. Search bar inside the embedded browser has been removed use instead the default one in the web browser
• Fixed. Better cleanup of unused tmp files when debugging and running files
• Fixed. The Preview and Run button has been merged into just Run
• Fixed. If file is not modified the tmp file on Run will be ~ + filename
• Fixed. If file is modified the tmp file on Run will be ~~ + filename
• Fixed. Jump to declaration improved for especially self::/parent::/$this→/$someObj→
• Fixed. Application manager
• Fixed. Better resolving object properties
• Fixed. Better visibility in code tip for parent/self/$this/construct/extends * Fixed. Better support in code completion and code tip for parent:constructor()
• Fixed. Class body completion for interface methods
• Fixed. Fix constructor support for build-in objects
• Fixed. Renamed code completion option “If no match found, select the first item” to “Auto-select first item”
• Fixed. If file contains error the debugger (Xdebug) will now alert why it cannot start and jump to the error
• Fixed. Better text/icons for Web search and searching in the PHP manual
• Fixed. Export CSharp syntax highlighter (Preferences)
• Fixed. Import CSharp syntax highlighter (Preferences)
• Fixed. Export VBScript syntax highlighter (Preferences)
• Fixed. Import VBScript syntax highlighter (Preferences)
• Fixed. Export CSS syntax highlighter (Preferences)
• Fixed. Import CSS syntax highlighter (Preferences)
• Fixed. Clear all search marks in opened files
• Fixed. Auto-closing html/xhtml tags is now by default on
• Fixed. Default path for the syntax check for PHP
• Fixed. Inserting a phpDoc from the toolbar
• Fixed. phpDoc indention on pressing Enter
• Fixed. Bookmark positions after performing a search/replace
• Fixed. Strip HTML/XHTML tags
• Fixed. Printing and dimming
• Fixed. Setting the Xdebug profiler output path (support for Vista and Windows 7)
• Fixed. Default bold b has been replaced with strong
• Fixed. Default italic i has been replaced with em
• Minor fixes and improvements

Complete change log for phpDesigner