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NetBeans just announced the first milestone of 6.9 release which should be final for Summer 2010. Most notable feature in NetBeans 6.9 for PHP developers is the integration of Zend Framework (see our PHP Frameworks trends) in addition to an enhanced code formatting options. NetBeans IDE is really fast and lots of developers using Eclipse PDT should consider giving a try to NetBeans.

NetBeans PHP IDE include already a plugin for Symfony frameworks; more new features in this release include :

- Error badges : easily recognize files having errors directly from Projects view
- Symfony projects with custom directory structure supported
- Improved PHPDoc in Code Completion
- Formatting – the setting for formatting PHP code was extended and there are categories : Tabs and Indents, Braces, New lines, and spaces.

You can read more details on new features available in this milestone at NetBeans wiki.

RedBeanPHP is a zero-config, easy-to-use object database for PHP and an ORM tool. It works very simply. Just create bean objects and throw them at RedBean. RedBean will analyze your objects and infer a readable, comfortable data scheme from it and create all required tables and columns on the fly. RedBean is not schemaless, it makes neat tables and columns for you, but on the fly without any configuration.

RedBean try to change the way you use ORM by eliminating the complexity of the configuration part. RedBean store objects only, and can manage object relations as well. The core of RedBean is very minimalistic for an ORM, but functionnality could be easily extended with plugins, already included : Transparent Locking, Caching and Automatic Database Optimization and Cleaning.

RedBeanPHP is open source released under BSD license. Also available for download with RedBean : RedShoe a compact PHP script that automatically syncs MySQL databases for RedBean; RedUNIT a set of Unit tests to confirm that RedBean works according to specifications; and Pre-packaged since it works well with other frameworks such Zend framework, Shozu… etc. Version 1.1 already available for download in the nightly build page and include support for SQLite 3.

More information and download at http://www.redbeanphp.com