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 meAlecH 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.
What's your favourite PHP Editor?
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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. 
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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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I read your post a little differently the first time, so this compares two editors by features and by lightness.
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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...
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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Think I'm going to have to go back to Zend... my poor little celeron doesn't enjoy it java resource hogging madness thoughraghavan20 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...
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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Can we hear some phpdesigner vs. zend arguments?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
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?