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

timvw
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Post by timvw »

- At first i preferred editors like UltraEdit, Crimson editor, syntext..
- On the other hand i tried ide's like ZDE, Eclipse(php), PHP Designer, PHPEdit, Borland JBuilder, Codewarrior, VS and VS.Net..
- I also learned to work with Vim (more than :wq and :q!)

Currently i prefer syntext when working in X and vim for console...


I've decided to start learning emacs this summer.. But currently it's a PITA because it interferes with "screen" which also handles CTRL+ keys...

For CVS i use TortoiseCVS and kCVS...
hansteam
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Post by hansteam »

I use the only PHP editor worth using: Notepad!!! :D
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Ambush Commander
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Hmm... do you indent your code? It's kinda important that your editor automatically indents code for you: it's really annoying if it doesn't.
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Post by theda »

Notepad is an awesome tool to use, but for some reason, it will render a file completely garbled...
hansteam
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Post by hansteam »

I place two spaces instead of indents since the indents are so huge. I've never liked any of the editors I've tried. I guess I've got a good list here that I could work off of but I can't say that I've ever had trouble with notepad...
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Post by theda »

Notepad is nice and all, but like I said, it tends to screw up the encoding (or such) and cause a million [] like shapes to show up instead of the indentation that it had. That and it only, as default, saves as .txt.
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Post by Deemo »

yes, i also use 2 spaces. It also looks good everywhere, so you dont need to worry about people with low resolutions having trouble reading your code

I love PHPEclipse mainly because i love the Eclipse IDE. however it is lacking of a few features ive come to need.
A) The debugger is kinda weird.
B) No built in profiler
C) Code completion is kinda screwy

So decided to use Zend Studio. Now, this is a great program for PHP devs, however it has a few downfalls
A) Its a HUGE system hog
B) It is buggy if you have multiple JREs
C) Costs alot

If PHPEclipse had a profiler and maybe an improved debugger, i would definetely use it all the time, but Zend is my choice for now
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Devnull
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Post by Devnull »

PHP Designer 2005!

It's free, has a nice interface and supports other languages such as XHTML, CSS and Javascript :D
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Post by Stewsburntmonkey »

I began with notepad and VI, but now use EditPlus2. I like the auto-indent and especially the ability to do multi-line operations like commenting out whole chunks of code or more importantly indenting long stretches of code. I found nothing more annoying than finding I needed another if somewhere and having to re-indent all my lines by hand. Now I just highlight and press ctrl-i. . . magic! :)
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Post by apg88 »

I used Dreamweaver MX a few years ago, but since I switched to linux, I use Screem http://www.screem.org/
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Post by Jean-Yves »

Stewsburntmonkey wrote:I began with notepad and VI, but now use EditPlus2. I like the auto-indent and especially the ability to do multi-line operations like commenting out whole chunks of code or more importantly indenting long stretches of code. I found nothing more annoying than finding I needed another if somewhere and having to re-indent all my lines by hand. Now I just highlight and press ctrl-i. . . magic! :)
Yeah, I used to use Maguma Studio until the product became so buggy and the support so poor that I bought EditPlus2 instead. I have never looked back since.

On OS X I use TextWrangler, although it's not as good (imo) as EditPlus2. Maybe I just haven't learnt all of its tricks yet.
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Post by BruceT »

95%+ of my time is spent working in Linux, where I use Quanta Plus/kdewebdev (which uses the kate editor "plugin" from KDE). The times I have to use Windows, I use UltraEdit.
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Post by pilau »

I use DzSoft PHP Editor.
Very simple and supports JavaScript as well as PHP and HTML (don't know how it's like in other browsers).

Shame it only won't recognize CSS.
Do you know any editors that do?
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Jenk
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Post by Jenk »

SciTE :)

Clean, simplistic and the most customisable editor I've used to date.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Also has code folding, which is a god send on pages with 500+ lines.

Is also open source.

(I've used UltraEdit32, TextPad, Zend, NotePad2, NotePad++ and some others and still prefer SciTE :))
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_dev
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Post by _dev »

twigletmac wrote: Editplus - I've been using it since I got really irritated with Notepad whilst coding 'my first website' and now I'm sort of thinking I need something more but I really like Editplus.

http://www.editplus.com

Mac

same story here

it's just so customizable
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