What's your favourite PHP Editor?

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What's your favourite PHP Editor?

Editplus
55
8%
Notepad/Wordpad
63
9%
Dreamweaver
157
22%
vi
24
3%
Homesite
28
4%
UltraEdit
33
5%
PHPEdit
36
5%
Zend Studio
98
14%
Other... (please post and say which)
208
29%
Eclipse
4
1%
 
Total votes: 706

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swiftouch
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PHPed Professional Edition

Post by swiftouch »

http://www.nusphere.com

It has got some sweet features including debugging, customizable code coloration for each language. I use most of the features too. But it also has it's quirks.

I dont like Dreamweaver because it's not as much of a coders developing tool, more of a designers developing tool. It doesn't have debugging or anything that keeps track of variables, classes, etc.

I think this is comparable to zend or waterproofs app's.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I think it is a general consensus around here that Dreamweaver sucks.
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Maybe

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I know some designers who do and love it. Sooo for a coder, yes it's definitely a suck-fest, but for a designer i think it's great. I dont think it was ever meant for a coder.
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I'd agree with that. Designing, it is OK. Coding, it is crap.
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Post by toasty2 »

I use Notepad++ for everything (design and coding).
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Post by superdezign »

Oh, this topic is still going? :-p

I'm using PHP Designer (no link, sorry) which I used when I didn't have Dreamweaver. Though it has some errors and annoyances, it wasn't a huge file as far as I remember (I'm on 56k :P) so I like it. ^_^
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Post by swiftouch »

Here it is: I've read the entire post and came up with a complete(hopefully) list of what was mentioned in this long 30+ page post. After all someone needed to do it! I've tried to add links to the separate editors as I've seen them on the site. I haven't actually tried them so if their broken, sorry. Google them if you must see what they are all about.

If I have any listed twice, talk to the guy next to you. He's the one you need to blame. :) Enjoy.

Dreamweaver
Editplus
Notepad
Notepad++
Notepad2
Wordpad
NoteTab Pro
VI
TextPad
Homesite
PHP Expert Editor 3.0.2 http://www.ankord.com/
UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com/
PHPEdit http://www.waterproof.fr/
Zend Studio http://www.zend.com/downloads/
PHPed http://www.nusphere.com/
EmEditor by EmuraSoft http://www.emurasoft.com/emeditor3/
ColdFusion Studio
Komodo http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/
PHP Designer 2005 http://www.mpsoftware.dk/
Anjuta
Glimmer
PHP Coder http://www.phpide.de/
Kate
BBEdit Lite
nedit(ncl)
xemacs
JOE
Crimson Editor http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
HTMLKit http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Vim
Arachniphilia http://www.arachnoid.com/
Arisesoft Winsyntax http://www.winsyntax.com/
Extremepad
Maguma http://www.maguma.com
DZSoft PHP Editor
Editeur http://www.studioware.com/index.htm
PHP Expert Editor 3.0
Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
Quanta
Dev-PHP IDE http://devphp.sourceforge.net/
ConText http://www.context.cx/
CoffeeCup HTML Editor
PC Pico
Jext http://www.jext.org/
JEdit
SciTEFlash http://www.bomberstudios.com/sciteflash/
VS.Php http://www.jcxsoftware.com/
TSW webcoder http://www.tsware.net/
PSPad http://www.pspad.com/
TextWrangler
GoLive
Jed http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
gEdit
RapidPhp http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/

If I was to take a guess as to the two editors most mentioned in this post I'd say they are Zend Studio and Dreamweaver....but i didnt do an official tally. They did however make the top two in the poll. Why anyone would use Dreamweaver for actual hardcore coding is beyond me but I suspect they are new to the field and do a lot of design as well. If you're strictly a PHP coder, throw Dreamweaver to the dogs and get yourself a real editor already!

Personally I use PHPed because it pretty dang powerful. Most notably is built in SFTP so i can edit directly on the server, built in terminal(puttyish app), loads of confusing features(YA!), debug(though it can be a ***** to get running), brace matching, html/php inline error reporting, customizable syntax color coding, variable/class/etc on the fly tracking, search capability styled like homesite, and a host of other features I wont spend the time to mention here. It is semi expensive though...but the company bought it for me so I'm not complaining, and until you use a full-featured php editor you'll never know what your missing. Get PHPed or Zend, take time to learn either, and then you'll understand why featureless editors waste valuable time. If you're a command line junky, ignore all that i've just said.

One other thing. I have to take back all i said on the 10 of December before I learned new and exciting stuff about real editors that support OOP, SFTP, and such.
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Post by Zoxive »

For anyone that is longing for something more of an editor, and can deal with a huge learning curve(My first week using this SUCKED, but it was well worth it), i recommend trying VIM/GVIMi have to say, switching to this has changed everything.

It is very powerful, and there are so many shortcuts, and things you can do its crazy.

I've been using it for over a month now, and i have just hit the surface of it, and learn new things every day.

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Post by siampc »

Notepad
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

@swiftouch: Wow, that was some work. I added a few to your list (emacs, gvim, programmers notepad, tswebeditor, textmate) and links to some that I knew of. I also sorted the list by Editor name. I will be adding this to my blog tomorrow. Thanks for your work.

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Editor
Anjuta
Arachniphilia http://www.arachnoid.com/
Arisesoft Winsyntax http://www.winsyntax.com/
BBEdit Lite
CoffeeCup HTML Editor
ColdFusion Studio
ConText http://www.context.cx/
Crimson Editor http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Dev-PHP IDE http://devphp.sourceforge.net/
Dreamweaver
DZSoft PHP Editor
Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
Editeur http://www.studioware.com/index.htm
Editplus
Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Emacs for Windows http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
EmEditor by EmuraSoft http://www.emurasoft.com/emeditor3/
Extremepad
gEdit
Glimmer
GoLive
gVim http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
Homesite
HTMLKit http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Jed http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
JEdit
Jext http://www.jext.org/
JOE
Kate
Komodo http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/
Maguma http://www.maguma.com
nedit(ncl)
Notepad
Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
NoteTab Pro
PC Pico
PHP Coder http://www.phpide.de/
PHP Designer 2005 http://www.mpsoftware.dk/
PHP Expert Editor 3.0
PHP Expert Editor 3.0.2 http://www.ankord.com/
PHPed http://www.nusphere.com/
PHPEdit http://www.waterproof.fr/
Programmers Notepad http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad http://www.pspad.com/
Quanta
RapidPhp http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/
SciTEFlash http://www.bomberstudios.com/sciteflash/
TextMate http://macromates.com/
TextPad
TextWrangler
TSW webcoder http://www.tsware.net/
TsWebEditor http://tswebeditor.tigris.org/
UltraEdit http://www.ultraedit.com/
VI
Vim http://www.vim.org/
VS.Php http://www.jcxsoftware.com/
Wordpad
xemacs
Zend Studio http://www.zend.com/downloads/
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Post by anjanesh »

Anyone know of any editor (with php support ofcourse) based on .NET 2.0 or NET 3.0 framework ?
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

I believe VS.php is a plugin for Visual Studio with all (or most) of the PHP tools needed in an IDE. It requires a licensed professional version of VS in order to work though, it can't be the express, free version.
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Post by Benjamin »

Here is a great article by IBM

Seven great PHP IDEs compared
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

That is a cool article astions. Thanks for posting.
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