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

shwanky
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Post by shwanky »

Zend, Notepad and VIM :). I think I like VIM more than Zend ^.^
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Post by the DtTvB »

I must vote for Notepad! I used it so many times.

I also use Notepad2 a lot.
It was really good and I really love that program.

Another tool that I think is powerful is vim (an improved version of vi),
it has a lot of features, but sometimes it's too confusing, but I use it also.

Another tool I use is Dreamweaver, I really love its code view!
(I don't use design view so much, I just use it for previewing my designs.)
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

That is one of the coolest little apps I have seen. Man, thanks for that link. It is really neat, very lightweight and very fast for regular file editing.
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PSpad

Post by thecowboy »

I've used PHP Designer, vim, Dreamweaver, and whole slew of others, but I always keep coming back to PSpad.

It really simple, but it has a lot of handy features and lets you customize almost everything.

I use it for all my text file needs.
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Post by acpbrian »

Dreamweaver hands down because of the ability to view any code as highlighted. Winner in my book =D.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Highlighted, as in syntax? That is available in almost any editor nowadays.
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Post by Xoligy »

volka wrote:I use PHPEdit on my windowsbox.I simply copy&paste the feature overview list from the homepage
* Syntax Highlighting
* Code Hint, Code Insight
* Integrated PHP debugger
* Help Generator
* Customizable shortcuts
* More than 150 scriptable commands
* Keyboard templates
* Todo report generator
* QuickMarks
* Plugins
It's small (about 6MB; 1.24MB current version update) and quite fast.
Since I really like debuggers I won't recommend an IDE without ;)
If you're used to javadoc, doxygen or similar you will also appreciate the help-generator. Syntax highlighting includes matching braces.
Always get the latest (complete) development version, stable lacks many features and imho isn't more stable than recent dev. versions.

edit: oh, I just became aware that some dev.versions really are development! versions. The latest update crashes on my computer far too often :(
Same. If you mean the snapshots, they're straight from the developers so they're bound to be buggy. I use the latest snapshots all the time and only a few have crashed on me, and it's usually pretty quick to be mentioned and fixed on the mailing list. I'm a loyal PHPEdit fanboy and I just love it. Their development team are amazing and they have some really cool ideas.
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Post by Theory? »

I use PHPDesigner 2007 on my PC, but I don't really do much coding on my PC. The PC is for audio. I use my Mac and I've got Dreamweaver on that. Dreamweaver is all fine and dandy, but I haven't done any serious development in it. Perhaps we'll see how CS3 shapes up.
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Post by Zu »

I can never settle on a PHP editor. Started with things like notepad, grew to PHP Designer 2006 (which I thought was good), then 2007 (which was really bad), stayed on notepad++ for about 6 months just because it was very lightweight.

The I moved on to some of the big boys. I tried eclipse with PHPeclipse plugin which I loved at the time. Probably used it for a couple months. I don't know why but I recently downloaded Zend Studio and I simply love it. Everything is built in, a (allbeit small) MySQL viewer, SVN with color changing filenames based on their repository status, good fast popups which are useful (something I have found Eclipse to not be so good at).

Another great thing about Zend is that when you are there typing away referencing methods from the popup, I can sometimes not see the function I want - which means that it is set to private or protected in the class.

I dont think I could go back to Eclipse anymore.
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Post by kbrown3074 »

I stick with VIM myself. Usually syntax coloring off..unless I have a stoopid error then I turn it on.
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Post by OasisGames »

Notepad++
Edit: I program in numerous different languages, plus script for Halo: Combat Evolved. NP++ is great because it has all of the languages I use normally (C#, C++, Visual Basic, HTML, SQL, CSS, PHP, etc), and you can add custom languages (like how I added HSC - Halo Script). Also, some of the other features are appealing as well (like the HEX viewer)

I only wish I had it on Linux...

Edit: Gasp! The installer and N++ both ran (run) perfectly from Wine! Yay!
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Post by ptrpan »

I use Dreamweaver and Im really fond of Notepad2(very lightweight).

I also stumbled on an editor called Nvu that I really like.
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Post by webaddict »

KDevelop will do for now, but I do want to get Zend Studio one day.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Zend Studio lost my business the day I started using Eclipse. Literally.

Favorites, for me, in order of weight (like lightweight to powerhouse)...
  1. Notepad2
  2. Notepad++
  3. PSPad
  4. Eclipse
Though I vaguely recall posting that list somewhere else...
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Post by the_last_tamurai »

Zend studio , Dreamweaver , Notepad++.

zend make it easy toooooo much.
even I don't like dreamweaver in html . but it has awesome features.
Notepad++ lightweight
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