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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Tipperton
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My vote is for Komodo

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I tried several...

NuSpere's PHPEd was a pain in the a**

Zend Studio was nice but seemed VERY buggy and slow, the last straw was when I set up a large project; first it reported files as missing that WERE there, then it deleted 90% of the projects files! :evil:

There was two others I looked at that were VERY similar. When I inquired about the similarity both companies said the other company was started by a former employee who took their code with him. I decided to stay as far away from that non-sense as posible...

I ended up with Komodo because the Personal Edition (which was all I needed) was only $30. And it had one feature that none of the others had that I really liked, real-time syntax checking.

The only downside so far is a bug in the debugger, but that was fairly easy to work around.
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Post by mikusan »

I wanted to bring this post back, because i have a problem....
I like dreamweaver, no questions asked but lately due to it's inability to debug my code i opted for telnet... and vim... along with the text editro if i am in win... Though i miss the nice colors and the kewl features in dreamweaver, but i was never been able to get some sort of debugging working in dream, i mean it uploads and downloads code from the site, it highlites code parts but i cannot get it to shout the errors...

any help very appretiated...
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Post by patrikG »

Try out Homesite - not sure if it still comes bundled with Dreamweaver. It's quite customisable and easy to use, the tag-highlighting is not 100% but very good etc. It's sort of the classic HTML-editor.
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Post by deejay »

i use DZSoft PHP Editor, mostly cos it had a month free and then was under $30. wouldn't mind Zend though from the reviews given on this post
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Post by Weird0 »

I use UltraEdit, it handles about anything you code in (if it doesn't under the default settings U can download the wordfile.
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Post by wad »

Textpad, of course! http://www.textpad.com
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Post by Sevengraff »

I'm now settled into the practice of using Zend when working on projects, and Crimson Editor for quick stuff.
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Post by M »

Hi, I'm new around here and I use Maguma Studio (the free one of course) :wink:
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Post by ayron »

i use dreamweaver mx a fair bit due to it's useful site management features, but when i'm just writing php & css then i'll often fire up Editeur (http://www.studioware.com/index.htm) which i've found to be a more than useful text editor with syntax highlighting for a number of languages and the ability to save as Windows, Unix and other text file formats...
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Post by mgelinas »

I use PHP Expert Editor 3.0. It's shareware, you try it out for 30 days and you keep using it for a mere US$35. Plenty of PHP and HTML oriented features. Line numbering, syntax highlighting, tabbed windows, etc. Plenty of debugging features I haven't even started to use. Highly customizable. It beats NotePad and other text editors for sure. I tried a few and this one does the job well. Funny that it is not mentioned by other posters.
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Favorite PHP Editor

Post by trollll »

Started with BBEdit and moved on to Project Builder once I got my hands on OS X.

When I have to work in a different OS? vi or textedit...
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Post by cactus »

Depending on whether I'm bug fixing or building an entire service/system I switch between Vi (which I actually hate, but gets the job done), Nedit (Linux) and Edit+ (Win32).

I switch to XMLSpy for XML/XSL/WSDL/SOAP.

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Post by qartis »

For all the text editors out there, none meet all of my requirements:

- Linux
- Very fast and light
- FTP Editing
- Not java based

I used Editplus for a long time, but new versions of Wine refuse to run it, and I lost my working configuration file. Is there an 'editplus' type program for linux?
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Post by cactus »

The closest I've found to Edit+ for Linux is Nedit (see link in my earlier post).

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EDIT>>
Have a look at :
Quanta Plus : http://quanta.sourceforge.net/

It will run under Gnome 2.2 and KDE 3x :)
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Post by m3rajk »

no one here uses XEMACS/EMACS?

http://www.gnu.org <-- emacs is somewhere there

http://www.xemacs.org <-- xemacs

it's a programming editor. it has (i think optional) built in debuggers for all the languages it supports, i know for a fact it supports php, html, xml, c, java, scheme, lisp, perl... i think there's others, but those are the ones i've used in it... i'm pretty sure c++, python, cobol and some others are also supported, it also has a windows port... it does syntax highlighting, parenthesis matching... ummm... trying to think of what else. i know there's more.


i'd like to add, i've used netscape composer and dreamweaver for html, the latter for php too, but they add a lot of garbage. emacs/xemacs doesn't

i've used microsoft visual c++ once... it also liked to pad with notes about the fact you're using an editor ome company made ... why bog down code with that crap? why inflate your files? i see no reason to.

the two i mentioned are free, and they are pure opensource. ... both are under GPL i believe and have connections to FSF, one is part of the GNU project and one is a split from it taking a road one of the makers of EMACS wanted to take
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