[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by sweede

Although, who ever creates a working system to edit plugins via text file v.s. the plugin editor will hold the mod of the month spot for quite some time

What I do for plugins during development is simply require a file with my actual code in it, like ...

PHP Code:

require(DIR  . '/cheesegrits/somehack/plugin.global_start.php'); 


This has two advantages ...

1) I can use my regular PHP editor on the code itself.

2) I can use xdebug (i.e. step through the code, enable breakpoints, etc), which you can't do with directly eval'ed code.

Once the code is ready for release, I just paste it into the plugin and get rid of the require.

-- hugh