What's your favourite PHP Editor?

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What's your favourite PHP Editor?

Editplus
55
8%
Notepad/Wordpad
63
9%
Dreamweaver
157
22%
vi
24
3%
Homesite
28
4%
UltraEdit
33
5%
PHPEdit
36
5%
Zend Studio
98
14%
Other... (please post and say which)
208
29%
Eclipse
4
1%
 
Total votes: 706

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Post by llimllib »

My previous post was about linux editors. My verdict? I prefer Anjuta as long as you don't need code insight (I don't mind when it's not there). Syntax highlighting, braces matching, terminal window at the bottom. Also, Anjuta is pure Open Source, unlike Zend or Komodo. Finally, gvim is my backup, it can be made to do just about anything.
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Post by Stoker »

For windows, as a generic editor I find Editplus the best commercial one, HTML-kit is pretty good to be free..

As a PHP-dedicated editor, I use Zend (on Linux, but I am sure it's just as good on Bill Gates), I never tried PHPed but I guess they are similar (?)..

One of the nicest things about Zend is the pop-up help on builtin and your own functions, so I no longer have to look in the manual to remember if $needle or $haystack is the first parameter and so on, a single click in that popup will bring you to the source of the function (if it's your own), it is even pretty good at finding the functions within classes and such.. If you often use very long variable names you'll find the autocompletition feature useful.. The syntax highlighter is near perfect, I have not seen it fail yet (where editplus will on some regex and other complex escapes and combinations).. Zend's bracket/parentheses and quote matching feature makes it easier to avoid a missing } ) " ' and such... Click F1 on a word and it will try find it in the manual for you.. The project and file inspector is very useful for larger projects

One thing I find missing is support for setting a project-include-path, as some of the projects I am working on use .htaccess to set the include-path, making it difficult to use the debugger without telling it where every single file is..

Edit/Add: Just a comment to evilcoders post below; If you think Notepad is unbeatable you haven't tried many editors, notepad has no knowledge of Newline/Carriage-return usage, no syntax or indentation understanding, no smart functionality at all.... If Zend-Dev came with an option like 'viM-mode' offering vi-style edit commands and cusror movement it would be the perfect thing (for PHP)..
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Post by evilcoder »

i use notepad... cant beat it really. Although i used WinSyntax once, which is about 300KB with colour coding and tab editing.
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Post by McGruff »

http://syn.sourceforge.net/

Haven't tried editplus though - will look at that
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Post by Crashin »

I like Homesite. It's relatively cheap, color-coding, and has built-in FTP capability. But, it doesn't do anything special for PHP, like code checking.
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Post by lc »

I recently decided to buy textpad since I started using it more and more. Not expensive and it does the job.

basicly notepad was fine but textpad gives it all neat colours like the php function on this forum. It also automates some neat tabs, and being able to save workspaces containing all the scripts I use for a site is real neat. I tried ultra edit but that was a bit much.
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Post by Sevengraff »

my personal favorite is PHP Coder
http://www.phpide.de
its got good hilighting, does the indents the way i want 'em, and loads fast enough for me.
for those times when im in Linux, i run kate.
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Post by DeGauss »

I use Homesite, unless i'm using a *nix box, on which i would use JOE.
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Post by Kriek »

I use PHP Coder. IDE (Integrated Development Environment) especially developed for PHP programmers with PHP Interpreter, documentation, and Full Syntax Highlighting.
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Post by evilcoder »

i might give it a go.. looks the goods.
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Post by horgh »

on linux with KDE i prefer Kate...a quite cool texteditor! syntax highlighting for nearly every kind of code

on windows i can recommend UltraEdit.
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Post by McGruff »

I've been converted to EditPlus after hearing about it in this thread. Now, how can I recast my vote..
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Post by Maiku »

I don't do much PHP yet (mostly HTML at this point), but I use Crimson Editor. Its free, and has color coding for alot of different languages, including ASP, Basic, C/C++, CSS, Fortran, HTML, Java, and PHP. Really quite a nice, and stable program.

http://download.com.com/3000-2352-10140098.html
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Post by Tiimmy »

I use Komodo 2.0, but I'm a Perl nerd, so it comes in handy for both PHP and Perl. I might give PHPEdit a try, it looks good!! :P
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Post by m3mn0n »

Maiku wrote:I don't do much PHP yet (mostly HTML at this point), but I use Crimson Editor. Its free, and has color coding for alot of different languages, including ASP, Basic, C/C++, CSS, Fortran, HTML, Java, and PHP. Really quite a nice, and stable program.

http://download.com.com/3000-2352-10140098.html
Nice program, great alternative to my massive Dreamweaver. But my only beef, is it's PHP syntax highlighter isn't standard. It blends into the HTML and is for the most part just black/blue. :?
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