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Can you suggest me a PHP editor that has these... ?

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:16 am
by kaisellgren
Hello fellow coders,

I'm done with bad IDEs. I want to find the best that suits my needs. It does not need to support anything else except PHP (by that I mean syntax highlighting, language reference, etc). So SQL, JS, HTML, I don't care.

Some requirements:
- Syntax highlighting.
- I need the colors to be fully customizable. I want the background to be black, and text to be in colors (default text color white). So that its light against dark background - this is good, because my eyes will not get hurt this way! So it's a MUST. Think about yourself, LCDs emit light, which hurts your eyes more or less. If you sit on the PC for many hours, the amount of light your eyes receive will hurt them. But if the screen is mostly black (aka the background), then the amount of light your eyes receive in a hour is much much less. It doesn't put so much strain on your eyes ;)
- Basic functionality like Word Wrap, Line Numbers, Some sort of Code Folding would be great.
- The IDE MUST remove trailing whitespace when I save the document!
- Debugging tools not needed.
- A popup which appears when you start typing functions, variables, ... and lets you easily see what were the function params and in which order and what kind of variable names you can use that are in your project...
- Most important feature!:
If I type like this:
function abc()<enter>{<enter>
it should become like this (character-per-character)

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function abs()
 {
  |
 }
Where | is the cursor point. Notice the indentation that I use, one for braces, two for brace contents. That MUST be possible with the IDE. It wasn't possible in Zend Studio!
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Fire me with your suggestions. I would appreciate if you let me know about some less known IDEs. :)

Re: Can you suggest me a PHP editor that has these... ?

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:18 am
by mintedjo
Use eclipse :-P

Re: Can you suggest me a PHP editor that has these... ?

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:28 am
by kaisellgren
mintedjo wrote:Use eclipse :-P
Where can I download it for PHP? I see only Java & C IDEs...

Re: Can you suggest me a PHP editor that has these... ?

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:31 am
by Jenk

Re: Can you suggest me a PHP editor that has these... ?

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:18 pm
by alex.barylski
UltraEdit....the most configurable editor I have ever used...

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Re: Can you suggest me a PHP editor that has these... ?

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:41 pm
by SteveC
I use PHP Expert Editor. I'm not sure if it removes trailing white space, but it seems to have ka-billions of features.

You can download it at http://www.phpexperteditor.com.

:)

Re: Can you suggest me a PHP editor that has these... ?

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:43 pm
by John Cartwright
PCSpectra wrote:Click on the link from my blog before you buy so I make some commission...something like 3500 unique visits and not a single Ad click...makes me wonder why I advertise at all in the first place...I should look for an impressions ad engine. :P
You actually aren't allowed to advertise in your signature :wink: