PHP Editors

[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:

PHP Code:

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:

PHP Code:

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,