What's your favourite PHP Editor?
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Ever since I found a handful of powerful, free editors I wonder why anyone would spend money on an application that they can get for free? Eclipse is my case in point. You can get it free, extend it free and have a great cross platform tool that blows the lid off of a lot of the IDEs that cost a bundle (like PhpED - $421 USD - Yikes! or Zend Studio).
Just my two cents. Since I found Eclipse I have been of the mindset that you can literally get almost any software you need free. And good software at that.
Just my two cents. Since I found Eclipse I have been of the mindset that you can literally get almost any software you need free. And good software at that.
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I tried and tried and I couldn't get auto-indent to work. For tabs or spaces.Everah wrote:Kudos for notepad++. That has actually been my editor of choice for the last few weeks.
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Seriously? That is odd since it comes on by default. Did you submit a help ticket or anything? Do you need an older version perhaps?scottayy wrote:I tried and tried and I couldn't get auto-indent to work. For tabs or spaces.Everah wrote:Kudos for notepad++. That has actually been my editor of choice for the last few weeks.
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I've just started using e and I'm finding it very interesting. It's essentially a textmate workalike for Windows.
The software used to design pages should make the job easier for you. It's a tool after everything is said and done, and what would be the point of a hammer if it was easier to bash the nail in with your hand.
So if you're big on keyboard shortcuts and want to keep your editor lightweight and specific, a notepad variant is your man. I always feel this applies especially to *nix users. If you know your way around *nix then you're likely to be used to tight, simple programs designed to do specific tasks very very well.
Windows folk tend to prefer the lumbering sprawl of Microsoft-esqe apps which do 1001 jobs kinda well.
I'm ashamed to say that I'm more the latter.
Anyhow, I'm a fan of Dreamweaver. I don't use it much anymore, but when I'm sketching in CSS designs, I need nothing else. I can do more in 5 minutes with DW than I could in an hour in almost anything else. Plus, because of the out of date box model in the wysiwyg view, you get a good feel for what is going to break older browsers before you get too attached to it (I'm not a fan of hacks). The code view is good as well, with good code colouring and a few other useful odds and ends. Anyone out there thinking to try dreamweaver though, be warned. Do NOT use this thing to layout pages in design view. It creates nightmare pages.
I've tried a few others from the list, PHPEdit was not too bad but I felt restricted and a little lost all the time. Eclipse was nice, but it had a strange flickering effect on the screen everytime I did anything. Also I found it really sluggish and unresponsive.
PHPEd however, is so close to perfect for me it's not funny. Just a few tweaks here and there and it would truly be perfect in my opinion.
The debugger is a good feature, but yeah, I too am yet to be sold on the argument that it's better than dumping info to the screen. After all, if I use debugger, I still have to know what I'm looking for, and I have to wade through every other variable and object to get to it. Easier just to write a line, save and view it. The code I want to see is right there.
So if you're big on keyboard shortcuts and want to keep your editor lightweight and specific, a notepad variant is your man. I always feel this applies especially to *nix users. If you know your way around *nix then you're likely to be used to tight, simple programs designed to do specific tasks very very well.
Windows folk tend to prefer the lumbering sprawl of Microsoft-esqe apps which do 1001 jobs kinda well.
I'm ashamed to say that I'm more the latter.
Anyhow, I'm a fan of Dreamweaver. I don't use it much anymore, but when I'm sketching in CSS designs, I need nothing else. I can do more in 5 minutes with DW than I could in an hour in almost anything else. Plus, because of the out of date box model in the wysiwyg view, you get a good feel for what is going to break older browsers before you get too attached to it (I'm not a fan of hacks). The code view is good as well, with good code colouring and a few other useful odds and ends. Anyone out there thinking to try dreamweaver though, be warned. Do NOT use this thing to layout pages in design view. It creates nightmare pages.
I've tried a few others from the list, PHPEdit was not too bad but I felt restricted and a little lost all the time. Eclipse was nice, but it had a strange flickering effect on the screen everytime I did anything. Also I found it really sluggish and unresponsive.
PHPEd however, is so close to perfect for me it's not funny. Just a few tweaks here and there and it would truly be perfect in my opinion.
The debugger is a good feature, but yeah, I too am yet to be sold on the argument that it's better than dumping info to the screen. After all, if I use debugger, I still have to know what I'm looking for, and I have to wade through every other variable and object to get to it. Easier just to write a line, save and view it. The code I want to see is right there.
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