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Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:57 pm
by chopWood
I've reviewed dozens of php IDEs, Editors, wysiwygs and haven't been able to find one that suits me. I'm actually looking for something like Text Wrangler but that is for Mac only.

Must have:
Free
includes FTP client
code highlighting
syntax warnings
line numbering... you get it, the very basics
Cross platform (Mac/Windows)

Don't want things like code completion etc.

Most that I've seen have way too many options. I'm trying to put together an INTRODUCTORY programming course and don't want all the bells and whistles that are going to confuse students that are new to all this.

thanks so much for your help

Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:32 am
by Bill H
I've been using Crimson Editor for a long time. Has everything you're looking for and a small footprint.
See it at http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:09 am
by chopWood
Thanks for the tip but Crimson is Windows only. I need one for both Windows and Mac.

Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:56 pm
by Doug G
I like geany on linux and windows, don't know if mac version is available tho

Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:39 pm
by tr0gd0rr
There are not a lot of "simple" editors that work on windows and osx.These exhaustive lists may help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... vironments

One I see that might be good for you is "J" but I have never heard of it: http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/

Also, I think Netbeans and Eclipse are pretty simple, especially if you hide most of the panels.

Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:59 pm
by Christopher
Editors are such personal choices that recommendations rarely help. We have a thread of favorite editors:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=81100&start=270

You might also want to look here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Text%20W ... %20windows

Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:55 am
by chopWood
Thank you for your suggestions that were very helpful. I couldn't really find any one editor that suited my need for cross platform so it might have to be textWrangler for Mac and Notebook++ on the pc side.

Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:55 am
by techfreakd
an OpenSource IDE for PHP programmers.

Features:
Code completion [not finalized yet]
Syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, Javascript, XML, SQL and CSS.
QuickCodes

Code: Select all

 
Code browser 
File explorer 
PhpDoc and MySql Doc toolbars 
File templates 
Customizable desktop 
And more... 

[img]http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/tour.php?id=1[/img]
[img]http://www.php-editors.com/getimage.php?id=73[/img]