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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:19 am
by Chris Corbyn
Rocko wrote:
It would be my fav, too, if it worked.
When I ran a test file, phpiinfo(), the editor stripped out the html. Posts to their forum proved fruitless. I can't really put any faith in a product that is supported only on the weekends.
It doesn't like this code neither:
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if ($something) {
//Do something
} else {
//Do something else
}
It chews it up and makes this out of it
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if ($something) {
//do something
} else {
//do something else
}
I couldn't live with that cos I hate writing like this
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if ($something)
{
//Do something
}
else
{
//Do something else
}
Grrr

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:31 pm
by d3ad1ysp0rk
Not trying to change the focus of the thread, but I mix it up, top line is conservative, bottom isn't:
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if($something){
//do something
}
else {
//do something else
}
The Best Editor
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:27 am
by tkb

HI ALL,
I use Maguma Workbench. You can visit
http://www.maguma.com.
Maguma Workbench is a Fully featured, quick and very sophisticated PHP editor to help web editors and programmers take advantage of the latest PHP and PHP-related technologies such as Xdebug. Convenient features enable you to instantly create and edit not only PHP, but also HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code, while integrated tools allow you to easily validate, reuse, navigate and format your code. Suitable both for experts and enthusiasts. Features include Syntax Highlighting, Auto Complete, PHP Syntax Check, PHP function hints, File and FTP explorer, Code Templates and more.
Especially designed to manage projects, Workbench 's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides useful project management features such as a structured Project View workspace, and batch processing of files. Intelligent entry helpers guide you as you create documents and customizable code snippets are available for often used text. Naturally the user interface is fully customizable to fit the way you like to work, and comprehensive on-line help including an Perl Compatible Regular Expressions syntax guide are included.
Workbench is the powerful tool for the web-masters which use PHP, HTML, JavaScript language. This program will help you to make the analysis of the project and if it is necessary to protect it (to remove all comments in the program and automatically to rename variables and functions on not readable). Such protection the most universal! It's very easy in use, has Multi View interface, build-in FTP, SFTP client and many PHP-specific features for comfortable development.
CVSManager is an utility to submit or retrieve a project hosted on a CVS server. The main goal is to allow 'differential', between 2 versions, even when they are not in the main branch. So you can, for example, know which files were modified between two old versions to prepare a light diff package for an old customer, you can see what was done on current development version, sorted by date.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:10 am
by feyd
I smell employee.
Editor that runs smoothly on Linux
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:59 am
by briandude
Under Linux?
Try Maguma Workbench
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:13 am
by patrikG
or Komodo

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:52 pm
by SystemWisdom
Crimson Editor
Been using it for a long time now, for many different languages! Has customizable syntax highlighting, compiler linking, line-numbering, macros and more!!

Favorite PHP Editor
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:09 pm
by marike
I use a Mac and I love BBEdit. Has all you could want - syntax highlighting, matching brackets, etc. If I could afford it, I might look into Zend.
On my PC, I really like HAPedit. The thing it does that BBEdit does not, is it lets you lets you open many files in one window. BBEdit Lite (Aka Text Wrangler) has that feature, I don't know why the somewhat pricey BBEdit doesn't.
The other nice thing about HAPedit, other than the price, is code suggestion. At this point I'd probably switch it off as it can get annoying, but was good to have when I was starting out.
Judging by the results of the poll, seem to be alot of Windows users here. Where are all the Linux/Unix people?
Great forum.
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:30 pm
by m3mn0n
I officially have a new favorite PHP editor! PSPad is my new Win32 alternative to Dreamweaver. It's just as powerful and it doesn't even take up 1/4 as much system resoruces as DW does (just a meg or so of ram, compared to 30+).
Here is the official site:
http://www.pspad.com/
Here is a review page for it:
http://www.php-editors.com/review/?editor=59&add=y
100% Freeware and 100% worth a try if you are in the market for a new edtior.
Here is a list of some of it's features:
- work with projects
- work on several documents at the same time (MDI)
- Save desktop session to later reopen all open files
- FTP client - you can edit files directly from the web
- macro recorder to record, save and load macros
- search and replace in files
-external compiler with catch command output, log window, log parser for each environment for "IDE" effect
- syntax highlighting auto set by file type
- user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
- auto correction
- inteligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
- full HEX editor
- spell checker (with downloadable dictionaries in multiple languages)
ActiveState Komodo is great
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 10:30 pm
by Simulacrum
I been learning PHP for the last few weeks. So far, I've used the following editors:
Notepad
PHP Designer 2005
PHPEdit
ActiveState Komodo
I would also rank these editors in that order.
Notepad is featureless and buggy. Use if you are a masochist. If you want a simple editor (not and IDE), use EditPad Lite or EditPad Pro.
PHP Designer 2005 is free and shows promise, but needs more work IMO. Also, no intellisense, which is arguable one of the best features of an IDE.
PHPEdit also shows promise, but I found it to be buggy. The latest "stable" version crashed on my system a number of times. I also found the intellisense feature to be awkward.
ActiveState Komodo is by far the best of the bunch that I have tried. Here are some of the reasons why I like it:
- Fast load/close times
Ability to re-open all of the files you were editing automatically in your next session
Great Intellisense. Class members are displayed automatically. Call tips also provide help with specifying function arguments.
Smart Tabs: Drag and drop tabs around, or open websites within an IDE tab.
Context Sensitive Help:I've configured my system to bring up context sensitive help automatically when I hit the F1 key. This will go direct to the PHP site, so in addition to the standard manual based help, you also get to read a lot of extra comments about how people are using that command. This is great when you are learning the language, because you're constantly asking the question "Is this the best way?".
Also supports PERL, Python and TCL.
Lot of other good stuff.
I think my search is going to end with Komodo.
Just my 2c
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 9:16 am
by photonriver
Crimsom Editor for me...
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 10:37 am
by malcolmboston
why do people keep starting the same threads over and over again?
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 11:24 am
by wwwapu
Because there is 15196 registered members and total votes is only 332.
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 11:29 am
by photonriver
malcolmboston wrote:why do people keep starting the same threads over and over again?
Well - why is this topic been 'pinned' to the top, if you did not want new members to see it otherwise?
If you think it's a problem then maybe the Topic moderators should unstick the topic...
- If moderators are having problems with users re-opening topics - then maybe they should simply 'close' the topic...
- So, moaning isn't acceptable...
PHP Editor
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:09 am
by cforant