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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 9:32 am
by DeGauss
Takuma wrote:Homesite? Use Dreamweaver MX, it's got everything or if you want to do a serious PHP use PHPEd or Zend Studio.
I would, but i'm too happy with Homesite... And if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Plus i have a deep distrust of anything that calls itself "Dreamweaver" and "Frontpage". Every time i think of these words i see lime green background with flashing red h1 times new roman words that say "WELCOEM TO MY INTARWEB SIET!!!!!!!"

Crashin wrote:Which of these tools has FTP support?
Macromedia Homesite ;D

It's puts FTP extensions into the explorer shell, which is nice.

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 10:04 am
by Crashin
I also do all of my development in Homesite and have liked it so far. I've looked at a couple of the other PHP-specific IDE's and they all felt clumsy compared to Homesite. Even though HS doesn't contain PHP support per se, it highlightes the code nicely and does just about everything you could ask for. Plus, great FTP support! :wink:
i have a deep distrust of anything that calls itself "Dreamweaver" and "Frontpage". Every time i think of these words i see lime green background with flashing red h1 times new roman words that say "WELCOEM TO MY INTARWEB SIET!!!!!!!"
I hear you there! Plus, have you ever looked at the code generated by those? Ugh!!! Give me old school hand coding any day! 8)

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 2:34 pm
by Takuma
I don't use those code generated of DW. I code it by myself and use WYSWYG. I use to use notepad but devided not to since it just tool a long time to create a website. So I moved onto WYSWIG even thouh I know HTML off by heart.

Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 5:23 pm
by Sevengraff
Silent-Chaos wrote:Was a little surprised not to hear a mention of the Zend IDE. They have a free version of their PHP ide available on site (sry, dont have link handy) and from what I hear (havent used it, yet) its actually pretty good.
i looked all over their site, and it seems to cost money. but it has a 21 day trial period. im trying it now, and its pretty impressive, but it slows down sometimes for no reason.

i use PHP Coder and i liked DzSoft PHP editor the best, but it costs money :(

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 5:37 am
by 9902468
Quanta is my choice for editor/ide:
Highlights:
  • syntax highlighting
    function completion
    variable detection / completion
    page structure tree (com model tree?)
    php debugger
    and more
Also its totally free, you can make it work with any programming language and development is rapid. If you like linux/kde this is for you.
check quanta.sourceforge.net

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:16 am
by JPlush76
I use Homesite as well.

I mainly just enjoy the color coding of tags and the file manager. I basically just use it as "color notepad"

I also prefer to complete all the code myself.

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 1:52 pm
by Sevengraff
I've tried Quanta on Linux, but it does some annoying things that slow me down. KATE is my IDE of choice on linux.

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 11:55 am
by jason
vim is my choice, whee!

It can do so many nifty things that other editors simply can't do. And the more I learn, the cooler it gets.

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 11:56 am
by jason
Homesite is what I use on Windows, though.

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:43 pm
by Sevengraff
what is vim? Ive never heard of this editor.

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:58 pm
by JPlush76
its a unix based text editor, spawn of the original VI text editor

do you have access to a unix box?

Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 1:11 am
by Sevengraff
ohh ok. yeah, ive used VI a little on linux. i'll check out this new VIM one.