Disappointed with PHP editors.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:25 pm
Hello,
I'm very disappointed with the PHP editors around us. I've tried Zend Studio, phpDesigner, ActiveState Komodo and NuSphere PhpEd. None of them suited for me.
Zend Studio simply forces me to use their own coding style. I have to disable all automations in order to be able to write my "own" code. This is stupid since automations are some of those features I look for in an IDE. Why to indent myself? Why to type everything myself? ZS just couldn't do it. I contact them and asked for help, but we came into one result: no solution.
phpDesigner looked great. It let me use my own coding style, provided automations, great and fast syntax highlighting, et cetera, but it does not have code folding
-- dude what were they thinking? Do they really think I'm happy to scroll through a class of 500 lines? Of course I need folding to hide parts of code I'm not working on. Soon I found myself feeling like stabbed due to the lack of code folding. I left phpDesigner. I feel no harm feelings about that.
ActiveState Komodo. Well, that's a very nice IDE with code folding and all. But there are so many small annoyances that makes me pull my hairs! I've been using it since last two months (or 1½ months). But now I'm done. I'm looking at the MySQL manual with Fx and coding a little snippet. Everytime I switch back from Firefox to Komodo, it has lost its cursor position
-- it has millions of similar-like small annoynaces that can't be called features so you must test the IDE before knowing whether it's capable of doing something.
NuSphere PhpEd was also very promising, but it wasn't supporting my coding style properly among with some other problems that I do not remember anymore, because it has been a while when I last time used it.
If anyone is interested, here's a simple demonstration how do I write code blocks:
I am using Notepad2. Still. 
I'm very disappointed with the PHP editors around us. I've tried Zend Studio, phpDesigner, ActiveState Komodo and NuSphere PhpEd. None of them suited for me.
Zend Studio simply forces me to use their own coding style. I have to disable all automations in order to be able to write my "own" code. This is stupid since automations are some of those features I look for in an IDE. Why to indent myself? Why to type everything myself? ZS just couldn't do it. I contact them and asked for help, but we came into one result: no solution.
phpDesigner looked great. It let me use my own coding style, provided automations, great and fast syntax highlighting, et cetera, but it does not have code folding
ActiveState Komodo. Well, that's a very nice IDE with code folding and all. But there are so many small annoyances that makes me pull my hairs! I've been using it since last two months (or 1½ months). But now I'm done. I'm looking at the MySQL manual with Fx and coding a little snippet. Everytime I switch back from Firefox to Komodo, it has lost its cursor position
NuSphere PhpEd was also very promising, but it wasn't supporting my coding style properly among with some other problems that I do not remember anymore, because it has been a while when I last time used it.
If anyone is interested, here's a simple demonstration how do I write code blocks:
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if function(...)
{
// code
}