What's your favourite PHP Editor?
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- 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...
- 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...
- Ambush Commander
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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
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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Stewsburntmonkey
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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! 
I used Dreamweaver MX a few years ago, but since I switched to linux, I use Screem http://www.screem.org/
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.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!
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.
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?
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?
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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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
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