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What's a good editor for PHP (WinXP)

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 9:52 pm
by bznutz
I've recently gone from Linux to WinXP, only because my children kept ruining my setup and I was tired of rebuilding the damn environment from scratch.
So now I, and my web site, are unhappily using XP.
What's a good Windows based editor for PHP? I'm looking for syntax highlighting and any other goodies there may be...

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:26 pm
by Sunthas
I noticed Dreamweaver MX and Hotdog from Sausage both seem pretty good. Hotdog has something going on where it pauses while I'm typing that I haven't figured out how to resolve, but other than that I love it.

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:29 pm
by oldtimer
I use Dreamweaver. It is good but expensive. If you just want a text editor there are several free ones or what I used to use was Ultra edit.

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:46 am
by powderfinger_swe
you could try homesite, it's pretty good...
i'v used it for a couple of years now and have not found any reasons to change...

/pow

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 11:28 am
by gyardleydn
Sunthas wrote:Hotdog has something going on where it pauses while I'm typing

I had the same problem on my Win 2000 machine. After looking around I found a sugestion that worked for me. Under System Properties/Advanded/Performance Options/Aplication response I set it to optimize for background services.

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:00 pm
by JPlush76
I've been using homesite for years now and have no complaints. Color codes all my php nicely

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 4:19 pm
by qads
phpedit is good, that's what i use and i find it quite useful :)

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 9:45 pm
by stickman373
i like phpedit :D

still havent tried dreamweaver though :wink:

yep

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:22 pm
by AVATAr
phpedit rocks!

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 9:45 am
by qads
i tried useing Dreamwaver mx, although it is good but it is not good as phpedit, best of all phpedit is FREE :D

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 2:50 pm
by DynamiteHost
HTML Beauty

Its great :)

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 12:04 am
by bznutz
yeah, I installed phpedit and I think it's better than anything I've seen thusfar. But it is buggy.

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 8:40 am
by PHPAlien
Is tehre any way when we wrote our script test it without any host!
Like when i'm using MS FP for HTML i can see the prview but i couldnt find anything related to PHP which provide this community! :evil:

PHP Coder

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:08 am
by d3ez
I personally use PHP Coder or DreamweaverMX. You can find PHP Coder on Tucows or Download.com pretty easily.

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 12:28 pm
by Johnm
bznutz,
Sorry for your loss... going from Linux to XP must be tough... I feel for ya man. As a side note: there are a few threads already on the forums concerning this topic.
Here is one of them: viewtopic.php?t=454
and as for my two cents: I use VI


John M