What editor do you use? 2008
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008
Notepad2 on Win XP, and nano on anything *nix-based. =)
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jeffjustice
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008
I have used NuSphere as a PhP IDE and I am very satisfied. I saw people talking about phpeclipse and I even saw this video http://codervods.com/VideoPage.aspx?ID= ... tegory=PHP and I would ask someone who has used both which is better. Thanks.
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I am an EclipsePDT user myself. I started with PHPEclipse and moved to PDT when Eclipse began officially releasing PDT as an Eclipse project. I personally love it on Windows and Ubuntu 8.04. It sucks butt with the sadness on Fedora 7. Have not tried it on any other platform. But on Ubuntu it is smoking. Throw in all the plugins that make and IDE great and you could get by with using no other tool for programming, debugging, data modeling and UML. It is that good.
For fast editing though I use Notepad++ & Notepad2 on Windows and vi/vim & gedit & gPHPedit on Linux. Sometimes I use Bluefish, but it irritates me that it always makes a backup file but never kills it.
For fast editing though I use Notepad++ & Notepad2 on Windows and vi/vim & gedit & gPHPedit on Linux. Sometimes I use Bluefish, but it irritates me that it always makes a backup file but never kills it.
Re: What editor do you use? 2008
have you checked settings?Sometimes I use Bluefish, but it irritates me that it always makes a backup file but never kills it.
kate is doing the same thing, I just turned it off (in kate, don't know about bluefish)
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I cannot find the setting for this anywhere in Bluefish. I may just not be looking in the right place though.
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Same. I've used PHPEclipse quite a while, until I found that Eclipse PDT was officially launched. Wouldn't want to go back. Eclipse PDT is by far the best free IDE I've ever seen. I'm running it on FreeBSD, Kubuntu and occasionally *cough* Windows, although I mostly use it on FreeBSD, since that is my OS at work.Everah wrote:I am an EclipsePDT user myself. I started with PHPEclipse and moved to PDT when Eclipse began officially releasing PDT as an Eclipse project. I personally love it on Windows and Ubuntu 8.04. It sucks butt with the sadness on Fedora 7. Have not tried it on any other platform. But on Ubuntu it is smoking. Throw in all the plugins that make and IDE great and you could get by with using no other tool for programming, debugging, data modeling and UML. It is that good.
PDT's code completion is really good, even with HTML
Oh; it doesn't seem to be able to make you coffee
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008
harsh choosing between notepad++ and dreamweaver...
dreamweaver only supports web language like html, php, js, asp, css and more..
but notepad++ does everything from c++, java to perl and so on, everything!
good thing about dreamweaver and other ppl who use it would agree, when you are in the middle of writing a html tag or a php function it automatically comes up with a list of all the possibilities of what you can have.
but voted for notepad++ because it has more languages
dreamweaver only supports web language like html, php, js, asp, css and more..
but notepad++ does everything from c++, java to perl and so on, everything!
good thing about dreamweaver and other ppl who use it would agree, when you are in the middle of writing a html tag or a php function it automatically comes up with a list of all the possibilities of what you can have.
but voted for notepad++ because it has more languages
Re: What editor do you use? 2008
Hi All,
First post here!
Here's something that may be of interest for those of you with Visual Studio... http://www.toptensoftware.com/devextraphp.
As a casual PHP developer I couldn't justify purchasing a full on PHP IDE, so I knocked this together so I'd at least get syntax highlighting in Visual Studio. VS is definitely my favourite editor (I work mostly in C++ and for that nothing really beats it, imo).
Brad
First post here!
Here's something that may be of interest for those of you with Visual Studio... http://www.toptensoftware.com/devextraphp.
As a casual PHP developer I couldn't justify purchasing a full on PHP IDE, so I knocked this together so I'd at least get syntax highlighting in Visual Studio. VS is definitely my favourite editor (I work mostly in C++ and for that nothing really beats it, imo).
Brad
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That's pretty sweet.
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I use PsPad which i think is a great text editor. It features tabs, colour coding e.t.c.
Could anyone else tell me of a better alternative to PsPad? (Preferably one that's free)
Thanks
Could anyone else tell me of a better alternative to PsPad? (Preferably one that's free)
Thanks
Re: What editor do you use? 2008
1: Visual Studio and Dreamweaver; WHY? Why use expensive bloatware when there are so many free alternatives?
2: Bluefish: I like it well enough, just never used it too much.
3: Eclipse: Loved it for Java and Python, never though to try it with PHP, but it's probably too heavy for my liking. I prefer to stay away from Java based apps. Sure, it runs fine enough, but it just doesn't have the same snappy feel as native apps.
4: Kate / KDE KWrite KPart : I love it. Syntax highlighting, collapse loops, basic error checking, ability to work with files over FTP, and SO LIGHT AND FAST! Integrated remote file browser, color-coding of files you have open, automatic indenting which works extremely well, and of course it will highlight about any file-type in existence.
5: Quanta : Probably one of the most overlooked IDE's! If you're looking for a high-end editor for big projects, Quanta is likely the way to go! I really enjoyed using it, I just am used to Kate, which is why I haven't changed.
6: For Windows, Geany: It's quite cool, and available for Windows!

2: Bluefish: I like it well enough, just never used it too much.
3: Eclipse: Loved it for Java and Python, never though to try it with PHP, but it's probably too heavy for my liking. I prefer to stay away from Java based apps. Sure, it runs fine enough, but it just doesn't have the same snappy feel as native apps.
4: Kate / KDE KWrite KPart : I love it. Syntax highlighting, collapse loops, basic error checking, ability to work with files over FTP, and SO LIGHT AND FAST! Integrated remote file browser, color-coding of files you have open, automatic indenting which works extremely well, and of course it will highlight about any file-type in existence.
5: Quanta : Probably one of the most overlooked IDE's! If you're looking for a high-end editor for big projects, Quanta is likely the way to go! I really enjoyed using it, I just am used to Kate, which is why I haven't changed.
6: For Windows, Geany: It's quite cool, and available for Windows!

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Re: What editor do you use? 2008
Eclipse PDT for me. I used to be a Coldfusion dev, and I loved CFEclipse. So, it seemed natural I try the PHP extension for it--and I've loved it every since 
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Re: What editor do you use? 2008
InType all they way.
It truly is the 'TextMate for Windows' editor, even if it is in it's alpha build.
It truly is the 'TextMate for Windows' editor, even if it is in it's alpha build.
Re: What editor do you use? 2008
I've been around and around on this one. I used to be Eclipse/Studio/Dreamweaver/Quanta/BlueFish/Kate.
Now I use VIM. I spend all day in Konsole, or Iterm, or terminal. I sftp/ftp/ssh/scp/svn/cvs, develop, and explore my files all in one place.
Now I use VIM. I spend all day in Konsole, or Iterm, or terminal. I sftp/ftp/ssh/scp/svn/cvs, develop, and explore my files all in one place.
Re: What editor do you use? 2008
i have used quite a few editors and ides but eclipse pdt is the best for me
phpdesigner 2008 - bugy and no support for javascript - fast startup and editing- not free
waterproof phpedit - no support for javascript - not too fast but php support is good- not free
nusphere phped - no support for javascript - great php editor and fast while editing takes sometime to load at startup though, good debugger- not free
Aptana with php plugin - good php, jscript, css xhtml . .... editor but i just didn't like it - java based so its slow at startup afterwards its fast.. don't know about its debugging.. free
netbeans early access for php - good php, jscript, css, xhtml.... editor - java based and needs JDK to run and is fast campared to other javabased editors , debugger - xdebug.. free
komodo edit/ide - good php,ruby, alot of other langs..... editor - very slow for me didn't work, slow at start up , slow editing .debuger - xdebug, debugging is easy (firefox source based editor).. komod edit is free which doesnt have code explorer
eclipse with pdt - best editor so far for me php javascript css ... editor with greate debuger and greate customizable GUI project creation and navigation is breeze you can download the whole package i.e eclipse with pdt from zend.com ... free and the best
phpdesigner 2008 - bugy and no support for javascript - fast startup and editing- not free
waterproof phpedit - no support for javascript - not too fast but php support is good- not free
nusphere phped - no support for javascript - great php editor and fast while editing takes sometime to load at startup though, good debugger- not free
Aptana with php plugin - good php, jscript, css xhtml . .... editor but i just didn't like it - java based so its slow at startup afterwards its fast.. don't know about its debugging.. free
netbeans early access for php - good php, jscript, css, xhtml.... editor - java based and needs JDK to run and is fast campared to other javabased editors , debugger - xdebug.. free
komodo edit/ide - good php,ruby, alot of other langs..... editor - very slow for me didn't work, slow at start up , slow editing .debuger - xdebug, debugging is easy (firefox source based editor).. komod edit is free which doesnt have code explorer
eclipse with pdt - best editor so far for me php javascript css ... editor with greate debuger and greate customizable GUI project creation and navigation is breeze you can download the whole package i.e eclipse with pdt from zend.com ... free and the best