PHP Editors

[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