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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Post by Begby »

Everah wrote:A ton of editors do that. I know PSPad does, Zend Studio does. I am not sure if Eclipse does but I would guess someone has built a plugin for it.
Eclipse does so you can edit directly off of the server, or click a button that will publish your changes to the ftp server. Does the same thing with SVN.

And its a huge pain to setup and is completely unintuitive.
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Post by Michael A »

Am I the only one that uses phpDesigner 2007?

I love it!! :D
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

There's always http://sftpdrive.com for IDE's that don't have remote file access built in.

It's OK, but a tad slow. I think that's more a property of SFTP though, I've never had fast performance with an SFTP client.
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Post by DaveTheAve »

Free version of Komodo came out: Komodo Edit 4

I use it and recommend it, I find it the BEST multi-platform tool I ever used... beside firefox that is.


Even has "Autocomplete and calltips" and the new version has an autoupdater... THANK GOD!
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Dude, I will try it because it is free.

FYI, I am falling more and more in love with EclipsePDT by the day.
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Post by Josh1billion »

Is there any IDE that allows you to view your MySQL databases from within the IDE? Something like the side panel of Visual C++ where you can see your classes and all of their members.. it would be useful to see all of your tables and all of their columns in that way. It would make things easier where you'd otherwise have to open up phpMyAdmin and hunt down information that way.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I know ZendStudio had a database object viewer. I haven't used any others that have made that prominently known.

Of course, I spend a lot of time either in WebYog or at the CLI, so I would personally never user this feature, but I know that at least Zend Studio has offered it in the past.

If you are using Eclipse, I just ran across this.

EDIT | Actually, the new site for the project is at http://www.sqlexplorer.org/
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Post by Josh1billion »

Interesting, but ZendStudio looks really expensive ($254 eek).

That Eclipse plugin looks good. I've never used Eclipse much, though.. I tried it out when I was using Fedora Core and that's about it. I might have to try that out later.. :)
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

FYI, that SQL Explorer plugin kicks butt. The perspective is hot. Just remember to follow the instructions here for adding your MySQL driver to the list of drivers.

http://www.sqlexplorer.org/drivers.php

I connected by using the host name (without the opening and closing brackets) and NO port and NO database name.
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Benjamin
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Post by Benjamin »

Can someone add eclipse to the poll? It probably didn't support PHP back when this poll was originally created, but deserves to be in the poll.
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Post by boss01 »

Ofcoors context. I love it for it's name. "Con TEXT"
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Post by ChrisMir »

I choose 'Other...', as I'm using Eclipse with the PDT plug-in.

I use it for about a year now and I can't imagine working with something else. Not specifically because of it PHP support, which is simply satisfying. Debugging is made easier by including some external extensions into the latest PDT version. Zend debugger and Xdebug support are both intergrated (you still need the debugger installed at apache/php level of course).

But a couple of plug-ins makes my development experience complete. Subclipse, FileSync and Mylyn. Subclipse is for subversion intergration and FileSync does automatic deployement of projects to my test server. Mylyn is a great intergrated task manager, which handles local tasks and external issue tracking systems, like Bugzilla, Trac etc.
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Post by Jonah Bron »

I switch between SciTE and Dreamweaver. I use SciTE, because it has an output pane where you can see if the php works (or has errors). Dreamweaver, if there is a lot of HTML in the page.
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Post by nawi2010 »

EmEditoris still the best for me. It's offer nice and simple interface but with huge features.
I recommend it to all
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Post by mikelbring »

I used htmlkit for years but got tired of the IE preview and all the bulky addons. So i tried notepad++ but didn't lik the coloring sythax. Now I use scite because I like the coloring and its lightweight.
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