Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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chopWood
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Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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I've reviewed dozens of php IDEs, Editors, wysiwygs and haven't been able to find one that suits me. I'm actually looking for something like Text Wrangler but that is for Mac only.

Must have:
Free
includes FTP client
code highlighting
syntax warnings
line numbering... you get it, the very basics
Cross platform (Mac/Windows)

Don't want things like code completion etc.

Most that I've seen have way too many options. I'm trying to put together an INTRODUCTORY programming course and don't want all the bells and whistles that are going to confuse students that are new to all this.

thanks so much for your help
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Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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I've been using Crimson Editor for a long time. Has everything you're looking for and a small footprint.
See it at http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
chopWood
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Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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Thanks for the tip but Crimson is Windows only. I need one for both Windows and Mac.
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Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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I like geany on linux and windows, don't know if mac version is available tho
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Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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There are not a lot of "simple" editors that work on windows and osx.These exhaustive lists may help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... vironments

One I see that might be good for you is "J" but I have never heard of it: http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/

Also, I think Netbeans and Eclipse are pretty simple, especially if you hide most of the panels.
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Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

Post by Christopher »

Editors are such personal choices that recommendations rarely help. We have a thread of favorite editors:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=81100&start=270

You might also want to look here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Text%20W ... %20windows
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chopWood
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Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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Thank you for your suggestions that were very helpful. I couldn't really find any one editor that suited my need for cross platform so it might have to be textWrangler for Mac and Notebook++ on the pc side.
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Re: Looking for a SIMPLE PHP editor

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an OpenSource IDE for PHP programmers.

Features:
Code completion [not finalized yet]
Syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, Javascript, XML, SQL and CSS.
QuickCodes

Code: Select all

 
Code browser 
File explorer 
PhpDoc and MySql Doc toolbars 
File templates 
Customizable desktop 
And more... 

[img]http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/tour.php?id=1[/img]
[img]http://www.php-editors.com/getimage.php?id=73[/img]
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