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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Christopher
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Post by Christopher »

Flamie wrote: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 :)
Eclipse + PHP Eclipse has both of those, plus comment collapsing and in-editor syntax checking ... and it's free (and runs on Linux and Windows).
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Post by Flamie »

thanks for the tip!
In editor syntax checking sounds really good, I'll be trying it soon!
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Post by Christopher »

Ecllipse is no replacement of Dreamweaver's many other cool design features. However, Zend has a project to port their IDE tools to Eclipse, so it will probably become the tools standard for PHP like it is for Java.

If you try out Eclipse, also get the ESFTP plugin for SFTP'ing files to the web server. Plugins (like PHP Eclipse and ESFTP) are easy, you just unzip them into the Eclipse/plugins folder.
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Post by neogeek »

SciTE is my text editor of choice for all the languages that I program in. It's lightweight, has syntax highlighting, tabs and export to pdf just to name a few features. Highly recommended for even just the casual developer. I also find it a great substitute for notepad, as it loads just as quickly.
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TextPad is nice, quick and simple for me... One of these days I'll have to get a decent (free & legit) IDE for the extra features though.
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Post by Flamie »

Man I went to the PHP eclipse website and installing that is so complicated, its asking me to install 5 different programs to make it work lol
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Post by MrPotatoes »

i use komodo. i don't have it on my work computer and it's killing me every second i have to use PHP Designer
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si_davis wrote:TextPad is nice, quick and simple for me... One of these days I'll have to get a decent (free & legit) IDE for the extra features though.
I've tried many IDEs, and I always end up going back to TextPad. Nothing else is as easy to use. Plus, Textpad works with loads of other things I have to edit like Perl.
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Post by cheikhbouchihda »

Good morning,

I have two computers, HOPE and SUCCESS.
1°)In HOPE, I have installed, windows xp, the mandriva 2006 and kubuntu 5.10 breezy, so when I do PHP on windows, I use Dreamweaver 2004 as an editor and on mandriva 2006 or kubuntu 5.10, I prefer using vi.

2°)In SUCCESS, I have installed, windows xp and debian sarge, therefore, when I work PHP on windows, I prefer phpEdit as an editor and on debian, I use emacs when coding with PHP, in order to vary and master defferent editor.
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Post by itsmani1 »

one and only Dreamweaver 2004
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Post by defect »

i use jed, simple editor but with some nice features.
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Post by Benjamin »

Quanta All The WAY!!
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I always used EditPad Pro, but discovered EmEditor yesterday... Seem to like it.
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The best PHP editor in my point of view so far..

Post by briankusumawan »

Multifunctional Script Editor as Notepad is the best since it's totally free (don't think to much about Microsoft invansion 1st) but again, Macromedia Dreamwaver is really for all the best that web can do! Anyway, is there anyone can help me to find the comparison (advantages and disadvantages) of ASP.Net, PHP, CFM, and JSP? Just give me the link or if you have templates, plz send it to my email. Thanks..
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