What's your favourite PHP Editor?
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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.)
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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PSpad
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.
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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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.volka wrote:I use PHPEdit on my windowsbox.I simply copy&paste the feature overview list from the homepageIt's small (about 6MB; 1.24MB current version update) and quite fast.* 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
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
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.
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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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!
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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