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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Chris Corbyn
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AlecH wrote:Right now on my windows computer I use PHP Designer 2005 and on my Mac computer I use Dreamweaver 8 and TextWrangler 2. They are all pretty cool programs and start up quick and have alot of features, etc, etc. :)
Out of curiosity... what are the good mac editors? I've tried BBEdit but it's not as lite as I like my editors. I also know of emacs/vi nano etc from using linux. I'm new to os x so bear with me :)
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Post by AlecH »

Well, I really like TextWarngler personally (very light program, loads in like 2 secs), and I do think its one of the best and has gotten alot of good ratings on sites like CNET: Download.com, it has syntax highlighting and most of that basic programmers editor type features but if you want something thats kind of similar to the advanced features of a program like PHP Designer, I would have to say the Dreamweaver (very heavy program as you know, takes more than 2 mins to load :S) is the one. :D

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I read your post a little differently the first time, so this compares two editors by features and by lightness.
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Post by darryladie »

Programmer's Notepad 2

Does: XHTML, XML, PHP, CSS, JS, ASP and a load of other languages that I will never use.

Check it out, it's good stuff :D
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Just got around to trying phpEclipse. Very nice environment ! So far I really like it. Especially the ay the panels move and handle.
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Post by raghavan20 »

I think out of the few editors I have tried, Zend is very powerful, I literally take far more less time than I usually take with Dreamweaver.

features:
syntax highlighting,numbering
auto closing of brackets, double and single quotes
viewing all in-built PHP functions
highlighting of errors in script immediately
auto PHP documentation
popping up class methods and variables
collapsing of HTML and PHP classes and methods
and many others...
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

raghavan20 wrote:I think out of the few editors I have tried, Zend is very powerful, I literally take far more less time than I usually take with Dreamweaver.

features:
syntax highlighting,numbering
auto closing of brackets, double and single quotes
viewing all in-built PHP functions
highlighting of errors in script immediately
auto PHP documentation
popping up class methods and variables
collapsing of HTML and PHP classes and methods
and many others...
Think I'm going to have to go back to Zend... my poor little celeron doesn't enjoy it java resource hogging madness though :( In terms of features you just can't beat it however.
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Post by irisblaze »

the vote should really have included the best of the best: php designer 2005 by mpsoftware, http://www.mpsoftware.dk and it's free
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Post by evilmonkey »

irisblaze wrote:the vote should really have included the best of the best: php designer 2005 by mpsoftware, http://www.mpsoftware.dk and it's free
Can we hear some phpdesigner vs. zend arguments?
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Post by pedrotuga »

notepad++
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Post by Gambler »

Tried out Notepad++. Not bad. It's buggy in minor areas (if I ever have time, I'll try to fix something) and does not do function highlighting, but it's fast. Recently I switched back from FreeBSD+ports+Jedit to Windows+XAMPP+Notepad++ at home. Is there some editor for Linux that does everything N++ does?
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Post by cj5 »

The most current version of ZendStudio, hands down. Not a very big fan of featureless editors, and I cannot stand console editors.
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Post by Oren »

Notepad :D
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Post by m0u53m4t »

I use GoLive for my whole site including CSS. What advantages do others offer?
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HAHA

Post by Nebulos »

Notepad ++ is the best.. use google
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Post by Flamie »

I love dreamweaver, mostly because of the following features:
-code collapsing, very useful when you have big classes and you want to "close" functions to have a better view of what is where
-Intellisense, allowing you to see function paremeters without going thru php.net :)
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