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d11wtq wrote:Is it just me or is the "Edit -> Encoding" option in the menu just full of greyed out encodings? I *need* to set a UTF-8 encoding in order to Unit Test a method which should detect UTF-8 in a string but can't set the encoding I just get jibberish if I open a UTF-8 file
All greyed out for me too... that's strange... ?
Got it. That greyed out menu must be eventually going to be a wrapper around this longer winded way of doing it:
Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace -> {Choose "Other" text file encoding and change to UTF-8}
I can live with that; I'll stay in UTF-8 mode anyway... doesn't seem to screw with BOM from what I've tried.
Agreed. I've recently started using PHP Designer (2007, kinda strange considering we're in 2006). Personally, I'm inclined to stick with the free version rather than the commercial version (since all my PHP is for my own personal use, or helping friends out)
Dreamweaver is a beautiful program. Problem is, it's also error prone with it's upload/download(get/put) feature. It's anything but a lightweight. It more sumo than anything.
I use Homesite but it doesn't have excellent ftp support. I've been using the addon to the firefox browswer called FireFTP. Homesite is the best all-around. I've used Zend but it doesn't have a lot of the cool feature Homesite has. Homesite also has its little idiosyncrasies that need fixing...but prolly wont ever now that macromedia...no wait...adobe owns it.
PHPedit is in the same category as Zend Studio. Too much PHP support and not enough html support.
In my opinion there isn't a text editor out there that suits me perfectly. I guess I'll just keep looking.
Been using Kate since switching to Linux. It has some quirks but if they really annoyed me then I could fix them because it's Open Source. Couple of other tools like KDiff3 and regexxer make my life much easier too. I'm also using Bluefish a little too.
I started with Dreamweaver, then coldfusion studio, then Zend Studio.
A few days ago I tried Eclipse with the PHPIDE plugin and I am never looking back. It has all the PHP stuff that zend had including a good debugger (which becomes really damn good with Zend Platform). It also has highlighting, code insight, and autocomplete for css, html, xml, your own dtd's, javascript etc.
Since the SVN implementation in Zend Studio was garbage I did the following workflow
Checkout with tortoise SVN through the file explorer
Edit with Zend Studio, keeping a list of all files that I changed
Commit changes with tortoise SVN
Tediously upload changed files to the production server manually, one file at a time, using an FTP client and my list
Now in Eclipse with the subclipse plugin, phpide plug, and ftp/webdav plugin I do this
Open Eclipse, right click on my project and update it from svn
Make my changes
Right click on project and commit it to svn
Click on the synchronize perspective and click synchronize and it automatically uploads changes to the product server (including moving files, renaming stuff, deleting files, etc.).
started with notepad, vi, UltraEdit, editplus, Dreamweaver, PHPEdit and then Zend Studio (for about a month ago )
me think Zend Studio is better in writing php code, but i still need Dreamweaver to thinking my user interface...
Begby wrote:A few days ago I tried Eclipse with the PHPIDE plugin and I am never looking back. It has all the PHP stuff that zend had including a good debugger (which becomes really damn good with Zend Platform). It also has highlighting, code insight, and autocomplete for css, html, xml, your own dtd's, javascript etc.
it's a good info, thank's for the info
i think i'll try this one too...
new adventures in writing php code...
I use Bluefish. It's fast, doesn't hang as much, gives me just what I want, and only has the annoying feature of me having to do CTRL+T when I open a page so that it doesn't autocomplete the tags.
I used to use Dreamweaver MX 2004 but that was SO SLOW
BBEdit is fast even with several docs open. PHP support is good. Features are great.
I will probably try Eclipse but right now BBEdit is quick and dirty plus.
Eclipse seems to use a lot of memory but once you have the app in focus it runs fine. I have a Mac mini (low spec of course anyway) and I have to wait a good few seconds while my 4,200rpm HDD rips a tonne of stuff back out of swap space when I go from a web browser back to eclipse. I like it as a flexible IDE though. BBEdit had major Unicode issues (mostly related to BOM) last time I tried it.
I installed Kate through fink last night and I'm quite impressed how well it seems to run.... it'd be better if you didn't have to have x11 running with it but obviously that dep will never happen since it uses Qt. I wish Apple had integrated X11 features into their own windowing system - it would be a big help considering the UNIX environment OS X sits on/in. Thanks to fink I feel I can have the benefits of a full UNIX system with all the available GNU apps through a debian/bsd style package management system.
Well you got me beat with a mac mini cause thats faster than my 350mhz Blue and white G3.
I think unicode is ok on version 8.5
Any program larger or more complex is too much for my machine to handle. Eventually I will move on when I get a newer machine. But I will always have BBEdit, probably for the majority of my text editing.
Not sure about fink. I've heard about it but don't completely understand it.