editing .php files...
 

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..

If your using Windows I'd recomend either TextPad 4 or PHP Expert Editor, both are avalible on http://www.download.com

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.).

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

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.

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).

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).

Ahhh ConText is the best!

- miSt

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.