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PHPed Professional Edition
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:07 am
by swiftouch
http://www.nusphere.com
It has got some sweet features including debugging, customizable code coloration for each language. I use most of the features too. But it also has it's quirks.
I dont like Dreamweaver because it's not as much of a coders developing tool, more of a designers developing tool. It doesn't have debugging or anything that keeps track of variables, classes, etc.
I think this is comparable to zend or waterproofs app's.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:40 am
by RobertGonzalez
I think it is a general consensus around here that Dreamweaver sucks.
Maybe
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:56 am
by swiftouch
I know some designers who do and love it. Sooo for a coder, yes it's definitely a suck-fest, but for a designer i think it's great. I dont think it was ever meant for a coder.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:36 am
by RobertGonzalez
I'd agree with that. Designing, it is OK. Coding, it is crap.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:12 pm
by toasty2
I use Notepad++ for everything (design and coding).
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:21 pm
by superdezign
Oh, this topic is still going? :-p
I'm using PHP Designer (no link, sorry) which I used when I didn't have Dreamweaver. Though it has some errors and annoyances, it wasn't a huge file as far as I remember (I'm on 56k

) so I like it. ^_^
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:47 pm
by swiftouch
Here it is: I've read the entire post and came up with a complete(hopefully) list of what was mentioned in this long 30+ page post. After all someone needed to do it! I've tried to add links to the separate editors as I've seen them on the site. I haven't actually tried them so if their broken, sorry. Google them if you must see what they are all about.
If I have any listed twice, talk to the guy next to you. He's the one you need to blame.

Enjoy.
Dreamweaver
Editplus
Notepad
Notepad++
Notepad2
Wordpad
NoteTab Pro
VI
TextPad
Homesite
PHP Expert Editor 3.0.2
http://www.ankord.com/
UltraEdit
http://www.ultraedit.com/
PHPEdit
http://www.waterproof.fr/
Zend Studio
http://www.zend.com/downloads/
PHPed
http://www.nusphere.com/
EmEditor by EmuraSoft
http://www.emurasoft.com/emeditor3/
ColdFusion Studio
Komodo
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/
PHP Designer 2005
http://www.mpsoftware.dk/
Anjuta
Glimmer
PHP Coder
http://www.phpide.de/
Kate
BBEdit Lite
nedit(ncl)
xemacs
JOE
Crimson Editor
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
HTMLKit
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Vim
Arachniphilia
http://www.arachnoid.com/
Arisesoft Winsyntax
http://www.winsyntax.com/
Extremepad
Maguma
http://www.maguma.com
DZSoft PHP Editor
Editeur
http://www.studioware.com/index.htm
PHP Expert Editor 3.0
Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/
Quanta
Dev-PHP IDE
http://devphp.sourceforge.net/
ConText
http://www.context.cx/
CoffeeCup HTML Editor
PC Pico
Jext
http://www.jext.org/
JEdit
SciTEFlash
http://www.bomberstudios.com/sciteflash/
VS.Php
http://www.jcxsoftware.com/
TSW webcoder
http://www.tsware.net/
PSPad
http://www.pspad.com/
TextWrangler
GoLive
Jed
http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
gEdit
RapidPhp
http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/
If I was to take a guess as to the two editors most mentioned in this post I'd say they are Zend Studio and Dreamweaver....but i didnt do an official tally. They did however make the top two in the poll. Why anyone would use Dreamweaver for actual hardcore coding is beyond me but I suspect they are new to the field and do a lot of design as well. If you're strictly a PHP coder, throw Dreamweaver to the dogs and get yourself a real editor already!
Personally I use PHPed because it pretty dang powerful. Most notably is built in SFTP so i can edit directly on the server, built in terminal(puttyish app), loads of confusing features(YA!), debug(though it can be a ***** to get running), brace matching, html/php inline error reporting, customizable syntax color coding, variable/class/etc on the fly tracking, search capability styled like homesite, and a host of other features I wont spend the time to mention here. It is semi expensive though...but the company bought it for me so I'm not complaining, and until you use a full-featured php editor you'll never know what your missing. Get PHPed or Zend, take time to learn either, and then you'll understand why featureless editors waste valuable time. If you're a command line junky, ignore all that i've just said.
One other thing. I have to take back all i said on the 10 of December before I learned new and exciting stuff about real editors that support OOP, SFTP, and such.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:03 pm
by Zoxive
For anyone that is longing for something more of an editor, and can deal with a huge learning curve(My first week using this SUCKED, but it was well worth it), i recommend trying
VIM/GVIMi have to say, switching to this has changed everything.
It is very powerful, and there are so many shortcuts, and things you can do its crazy.
I've been using it for over a month now, and i have just hit the surface of it, and learn new things every day.
Screenshot
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:32 pm
by siampc
Notepad
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:18 am
by RobertGonzalez
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:39 am
by anjanesh
Anyone know of any editor (with php support ofcourse) based on .NET 2.0 or NET 3.0 framework ?
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:25 am
by RobertGonzalez
I believe
VS.php is a plugin for Visual Studio with all (or most) of the PHP tools needed in an IDE. It requires a licensed professional version of VS in order to work though, it can't be the express, free version.
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:59 pm
by Benjamin
Here is a great article by IBM
Seven great PHP IDEs compared
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:11 am
by RobertGonzalez
That is a cool article astions. Thanks for posting.
Hi
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:27 am
by salmanq
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