PHP Editors

[|DarkManX|]

i use homesite 4.5

it works really good for me....

wondering if there is anything better out there that you more professional guys use?? :)

[Lesane]

I also use Homesite 4.5. One of the best in my eyez

[Admin]

I have EditPlus installed here, but I usually use CuteHTML (yes, HTML).

I only use it because I'm used to the way the cursor moves there (trust me, it's very different in other programs).
I'm also very used to its Search and Search & Replace functions, I can do them with my eyes closed.
If offers no tag highlighting for PHP, or any sophisticated stuff of any kind.

Once in a while I start up EditPlus and try coding with it, but it's just not the same, despite all the neat features it has.

[Mike Gaidin]

Homesite 4.5 as well.

[christec]

Lately I have been using Glimmer.

http://glimmer.sourceforge.net/

[Scott MacVicar]

I like PHPed

http://www.soysal.com


Scott

[JamesUS]

All I ever use is EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com) :)

[wot-Mike]

I'm a dedicated EditPad Lite (http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html) user. Have been for years. It's free and has all the features you can ask for.
But I'm thinking of buying the Pro version, just for the syntax coloring thingy :)

[snyx]

Im the only one on TextPad? It loads up files like hella quick, but whats so great about Homesite? And is there anything that allows you to find/replace multiple lines of code?

[SWFans.net]

errrm, I really don?t know PHP, but I just use plain old Notepad until I need to do ?find and replace?, then I use Wordpad.

I'm learning my around recognizing functions and conditions to some small extent though. :)

[Palmer ofShinra]

TextPad all the way.

I just LOVE the options... syntax highlighting to easy find and replace, MDI, spell checker...

"Match Brackets" is a LIFESAVER.

[snyx]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Palmer ofShinra
"Match Brackets" is a LIFESAVER.

[Dark Blaze]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SWFans.net
errrm, I really don?t know PHP, but I just use plain old Notepad until I need to do ?find and replace?, then I use Wordpad.

[Dark Blaze]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Palmer ofShinra
TextPad all the way.

I just LOVE the options... syntax highlighting to easy find and replace, MDI, spell checker...

"Match Brackets" is a LIFESAVER.

[Admin]

I'm just guessing, but maybe it's something that checks } and { and makes sure you don't have too many or too less?

[Dark Blaze]

Yeah, probably that's the description of that feature would be if it actually exists...

[Palmer ofShinra]

Put the cursor next to any bracket [ ( {

Hit Ctrl+M

It will jump to the matching bracket...

It's a great way to see if you missed a } when you have a dozen nested IFs, WHILES and FORs.

The easy way is to put it at the last } in each section [if ($action)] and then hit Ctrl+M.

if it doesn't go to the beginning, something's screwed. Then you can use it to narrow down where it's missing pretty quickly.

I can find a missing bracket and fix it in a couple minutes now, rather than the unreliable looking over it manually for half an hour, missing it a dozen times, commenting every bracket pair so you can match them up...

Only to discover you have a line like this

if ($condition) { dosomething;

With no closing }... cuz it's just one statement after an IF, right?

It also helps with nested ( ) for IF statements as well...

[Dark Blaze]

Thank you for that info Palmer ofShinra :)

[Admin]

It helps to do things like this:
if ($foo=="bar") {
for ($i=10; $i>0; $i--) {
echo "Who's your daddy?!?!";
} // for ($i=10; $i>0; $i--)
} // if ($foo=="bar")

and even easier:
if ($foo=="bar")
{
for ($i=10; $i>0; $i--)
{
echo "Who's your daddy?!?!";
}
// for ($i=10; $i>0; $i--)
}
// if ($foo=="bar")
like the standard is on C/++.

Personally I use the first method, then when releasing the code I just remove the comments to make it cleaner (the comments just help when testing the script, that's all).

[Dark Blaze]

Btw FireFly, I was checking out Online Users Section, and I noticed that next to your name it said "No peeking Dark Blaze ;-)" or something similar... Could you tell me which script is that and where I can download it please?

Thank you,

[Admin]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31938" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...threadid=31938</a>

[Palmer ofShinra]

I indent as well... but it's easy to just miss a single bracket now and then, especially in goofy places.

I'm needing it less as I go, but it's still nice to have.

[toLTcaboLT]

I use UltraEDIT.

[Dark Blaze]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FireFly
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31938

[Zach]

I use em all, as I sit here right now I have active files in dreamweaver, homesite, namo, notepad, wordpad, and one even in phped

Dont ask me why, just always use different programs for different types of functions (well except never use frontpage) - I really like homesites ability to run through and make a change on all my files at once - use that all the time, namo has by far the best wysiwyg for my purposes. Dreamweaver gets opened by habit, and the text stuff I use for quick edits, well edits that I do not do straight off of opening the document from the server with cutehtml - that actually probably gets used the most, open, make my change hit save and check it out and see if my change actually worked.

[nuno]

CuteHTML

[fury]

TextPad all the way here, too... Ctrl+M is your friend :cool:

[StarBuG]

I use and will always use UltraEdit!!

The best Editor ever! hehe

Greetings

StarBuG

[DroppedAtBirth]

I have always used PHPed but also use editpad light.

[Shenlong]

I use Homesite 5 and PHPEd 4 beta

[XiXora]

Macromedia's Homesite 5 and CuteFTP Pro v2 HTML editor when i quickly have to change something remotely. :)

[Shenlong]

Now I just use UltraEdit (if anyone cares lol)

[MrLister]

PHP Coder is the best. Just the right colors for each function although the project has been abandoned for a while now.

[Stretchr]

PHPCoder also. Only problem I've had is that very long strings won't highlight for replace and sometimes if you close a file then try to re-open it you get a blank page and must restart the program. Nice price, though. ;)

[thesteveco]

console: /bin/vi
desktop: /usr/X11R6/bin/nedit

[Ninth Dimension]

I'm sure that some other people here have already said this, but I use Edit Plus, it's not fantastic, but it's fine for what I want it to do.

[Palmer ofShinra]

A friend of mine swears by MetaPad

I'm still a hardcore TextPad dude myself

[TECK]

UltraEdit. for all.
http://www.ultraedit.com

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FireFly
I'm just guessing, but maybe it's something that checks } and { and makes sure you don't have too many or too less?

[Wayne Luke]

I use Textpad for programming. Though I am going to check out Komodo once I get my new machine running. It is an IDE for PHP, PERL, Python, TCL and other languages. It just won't run on the pathetic machine I am stuck using now.

[Wayne Luke]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nakkid
UltraEdit. for all.
http://www.ultraedit.com

[Frank]

Gotta be EditPlus, bloody fantastic program :)

[buro9]

As a senior developer... let me give you a few pointers...

Homesite - good, still use it occasionally, but it has bad memory management, so you can't do a regex search and replace over thousands of files... it hangs. Also, this is just a HTML editor, it doesn't accomodate too much PHP stuff, though you can see it tries!

Textpad - fantastic, use it for 40% of my work. Performs brilliantly, even allowig you to open 100mb .sql files with relative ease (i.e. db dumps). Problem? Can't match tags, and it is just a text editor, which means it cannot give you info on php or functions you've defined. Very good when set as your 'view source' for IE, as then it can colour code the source!

Visual Slick Edit - incredible, the other 60% of my work. Full programming environment... colour codes and intuitively knows PHP. Right click a function name for definition, match brackets... ****! you can even match opening <td> and closing </td> (or any other HTML tags) tags. This is THE best editor on the market... but whereas textpad is free on permanent evaluation, this one costs GBP 400... but if you program for more than 4 hours a day you'll find this worth every penny.

Vi - Unix file editor, get used to it and it's commands, just enough to make changes in an emergency on live.

Cheers

David K

[JulianD]

I will have to check out Visual Slick Edit... Does they have a demo version?

[buro9]

Yeah, here's the URL:

http://www.slickedit.com/purchase/pu_regtrial.php

[zajako]

i found a great combo of phpedit and cutehtml.
CUte html lets you edit it while its on the server so that you don't have to manualy download it and then upload it with your updates.

[hypedave]

I use PHP Master Editor
the layout is user friendly

[Shroomboy]

Ha... I use... Notepad... ha... *feels stupid* all the PHP editors I have installed have done nothing... just a simple text editor to me... so i stuck with what my comp came with

[Neo]

Well you are on the right track Shroomboy, Notepad is simply the best editer you can get :)

[Velocd]

I used notepad at first for awhile, till I found once when I saved my index.php file while installing a hack, the code got really screwed up (it all compressed to one line in length (word wrap on).

Very very strange, because first I didn't notice but when I visited my site it said an error was found on index.php on line 1. The only line in the file lol.

Anyway, I use Notetab now, very nice and free software. ^_^

[Itworx4me]

I would have to say that I Love PHP Coder

[Silenced Soul]

I use Notepad...yes Notepad, for EVERYTHING, HTML, Java, PHP. I do everything manually...it's just easiest for me =P

[alexp]

homesite 4.5, although as someone mentioned earlier, it does have a tendency to hang on large search & replaces. I like the built-in FTP client however - with a decently quick connection you can use a remote server as your dev box with this. No piddling around editing one file at a time via cute...

I've also started to play with Maguma Studio Lite (www.maguma.com) which looks promising, with a debugger built in etc.

It doesn't seem deperately stable however, so its homesite for me for now. Maguma are definitely a company to watch though - their (commercial) full PHP IDE looks very interesting indeed...

[version]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by neo
Well you are on the right track Shroomboy, Notepad is simply the best editer you can get :)

[jetalomar]

dreamweaver

[concept]

could someone hook me up with Homesite 4.5. url to get it?!?!?

that is if its a PHP editer that helps in some way with coding the php but if its a html coding application please inform me.. i use coffeecup html awsoem program very clean and excessable and free

[alexp]

macromedia.com - I think they do a demo version (?)

[concept]

NM i just looked it up and its dreamweaver dream puts to much junk code in the work...

[alexp]

no, homesite is seperate to DW, although they come in the same package since MM bought Allaire.

They can be used seperately however, and I believe homesite is available stand-alone for less money as well.

[MartynJ]

I use a fantastic freeware programme simply called "PHP Edit" by a French chap called Sebastien Hordeaux. The only drawback is that in Windows 2000 you need to run it with Admin privileges or it gets a bit grumpy.

[JulianD]

Hey, I've just purchased Zend Studio from www.zend.com and it's great so far. You can get a demo version and try it yourself. :)

[Scott MacVicar]

Komodo from activestate, nice $30 educational license for myself :)

http://www.activestate.com/komodo

[Ghostsuit]

Just going to check out Komodo but at the mometn I use Homesites 5