Just before I went out of my mind with a brand new JavaScript I created in my PHP web application project. I found the solution. It was my IDE.
I’m creating a very basic PHP application that runs generations of genetic algorithms. I’m a C# .Net Developer so web dev is a new world to me. I decided that PHP was going to be my web dev language, and always wondered what sort of memory problems this type of dev would encounter.
I decided to use the IDE PHPStorm from JetBrains. I like the IDE because it gives me file completion, it works for PHP and the inevitable jQuery ( hoping I can leverage AngualarJS in future) that I need to incorporate for some animation. I rather have found a cloud based IDE, but it seems the price and features of PHPStorm are right, except for some weird copy+paste issues, and some weird responsiveness problems. It’s as close to Visual Studio as I could get with PHP.
I wanted to start with a simple text fade out animation using fadeOut() method. I got the code, and able to use it in a browser IDE and it works great.
script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#critter').fadeOut(1000)
});
However when I created a new textAnimiation.js script and tried to use it, I got a ton of errors. Usually this is becuase I miss some stupid element. However everything looked good, and I was going crazy.
I was getting error of ‘Unresolved Method’ on the opening of the method ‘$’. There is a feature in PHPStorm that allows you to run the application in the browser, and it always assigns some port. I assume this is running as some service. It appears the service in PHPStorm stopped working that allows you to run your applications in-browser. And I did not realize this could be part of the problem. Indeed it was, when I went to file->’Invalidate Caches / Restart’, PHPStorm restarted and all the errors were gone. I guess it’s a similar problem that happens some times in visual studio with garbage collection.
