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Harken
10-31-2002, 08:14 PM
whats the best thing to use to edit these...if i open them in notepad..i cant tell left from right...open them in wordpad..and perfect..however how do i save them..so i dont screw anything up.. It says if i save as a text file i will lose all formatting...so how do i do it then.?? thanx in advance..you guys are a great help..
NTLDR
10-31-2002, 09:18 PM
If your using Windows I'd recomend either TextPad 4 or PHP Expert Editor, both are avalible on http://www.download.com
filburt1
10-31-2002, 10:55 PM
Dreamweaver 4 is what I use, but Dreamweaver MX has intrinsic support for PHP coding (i.e., popups while typing a function name, tooltips for functions, etc.).
Goldknight
10-31-2002, 11:24 PM
bah.. Ultraedit is best of the bestest even I can use it to open over 3 gb size of file and it work perfect and speed normal, not sloggy like others said.. it s full of bs

Or use Homesite 5.0
Erwin
11-01-2002, 01:10 AM
Notepad is fine as long as you don't use WordWrap - switch it off, then open the file and edit, then save without touching WordWrap.
NTLDR
11-01-2002, 01:12 PM
Note pad won't work though if the file has been saved in Unix format, you get loads of characters everywhere (ie at the end of the line where Unix uses a different terminating string for new lines then Windows does).
JulianD
11-01-2002, 02:05 PM
If you need to edit a file really quicly, then notepad, or Editplus... But if I'm developing something big, I'd prefer Zend Development Studio (although it's a little slow, but it's ok for me).
Dean C
11-01-2002, 05:42 PM
Ahhh ConText is the best!

- miSt
filburt1
11-01-2002, 07:18 PM
I can't stand it when people recommend Notepad. It doesn't have automatic indenting, and tab = 8 spaces, not the standard 4. Indenting is critical.