What's a good editor for PHP (WinXP)

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What's a good editor for PHP (WinXP)

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I've recently gone from Linux to WinXP, only because my children kept ruining my setup and I was tired of rebuilding the damn environment from scratch.
So now I, and my web site, are unhappily using XP.
What's a good Windows based editor for PHP? I'm looking for syntax highlighting and any other goodies there may be...
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I noticed Dreamweaver MX and Hotdog from Sausage both seem pretty good. Hotdog has something going on where it pauses while I'm typing that I haven't figured out how to resolve, but other than that I love it.
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I use Dreamweaver. It is good but expensive. If you just want a text editor there are several free ones or what I used to use was Ultra edit.
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Post by powderfinger_swe »

you could try homesite, it's pretty good...
i'v used it for a couple of years now and have not found any reasons to change...

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Post by gyardleydn »

Sunthas wrote:Hotdog has something going on where it pauses while I'm typing

I had the same problem on my Win 2000 machine. After looking around I found a sugestion that worked for me. Under System Properties/Advanded/Performance Options/Aplication response I set it to optimize for background services.
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I've been using homesite for years now and have no complaints. Color codes all my php nicely
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phpedit is good, that's what i use and i find it quite useful :)
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Post by stickman373 »

i like phpedit :D

still havent tried dreamweaver though :wink:
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phpedit rocks!
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i tried useing Dreamwaver mx, although it is good but it is not good as phpedit, best of all phpedit is FREE :D
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HTML Beauty

Its great :)
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yeah, I installed phpedit and I think it's better than anything I've seen thusfar. But it is buggy.
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Post by PHPAlien »

Is tehre any way when we wrote our script test it without any host!
Like when i'm using MS FP for HTML i can see the prview but i couldnt find anything related to PHP which provide this community! :evil:
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PHP Coder

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I personally use PHP Coder or DreamweaverMX. You can find PHP Coder on Tucows or Download.com pretty easily.
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Post by Johnm »

bznutz,
Sorry for your loss... going from Linux to XP must be tough... I feel for ya man. As a side note: there are a few threads already on the forums concerning this topic.
Here is one of them: viewtopic.php?t=454
and as for my two cents: I use VI


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