Kate, from KDE. I happened to use DreamWeaver but nowadays I only do backend coding, thus I have no real need for WYSIWYG editor.

    I use Notepad. And when it's done, for error debugging and general changes, I use CuteHTML.

      Hi everyone,

      On win platform php Edit is good ..

        Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor). However, I've noticed that the 'PHP' highlight has been 'broken' on every KDE install that I've done, whether it be Linux or FreeBSD. Simple enough to get around, I just use the C++ highlighting for PHP docs.

        When using Gnome, Glimmer is nice.

        For HTML, 99% of the time I'll use Kate; 1% of the time I'll use BlueFish (but mainly just for creating style sheets or Java-Friggen-Scripts).

        I never liked WYSIWYG HTML editors. I've had too many bad experiences (incorrect tag nesting, ugly source code generation, non-w3c compliance, etc) with WYSIWYG HTML generators.

          I rarely use Notepad anymore.

          HTMLKit is a great text editor/PHP.

          Good color coding and it allows you to edit on the fly as it saves directly to the server via ftp.

          I think it's a free download here:

          http://www.chami.com

            I use vim and textpad mainly. I tried using emacs but didnt bother reading the the manual and couldnt figure out how to exit it :p

              using windows, the macromedia homesite editor is quite good (was allaire a few years ago). when i got it right from their site, it comes either as standalone for a few $, or coupled with the new dreamweaver. it ain't wysiwig, though, but has a lot of predefined buttons for all tags and params. color schemes, too. if you know your way around html, give that one a try, depending on your style, it produces the best (imho) output code.
              one other nice thing about it is that you can define your own tag dialogs, and have a snippet library when using the same small piece of code over and over.
              definetly a 'buy' 😃

                I think I've tried every PHP-compatable editor out there, but I always come back to GWDsoft's GTEdit. It's just what I need, not too much stuff I won't use like debugging built in, but not light on high-end features like macros and reg-ex search and replace, either.

                IMO the dedicated PHP editors out there are pretty crappy. The only one I haven't used is Zend's, and I'm guessing that'd be the best of the bunch. I tried NUsphere's PHPEd for about a day and found it had too many annoying quirks to be used full-time. Plus the fact that it tried to run its own server was rediculous. About the only feature I liked from that was the built-in MySQL and FTP clients.

                Edit: I just tried Zend Studio. I remember why I didn't want to try it, it's written in Java and the interface is rather bulky. It too is very quirky. I hate that, with auto-indent on, it'll do this kind of spacing

                function blah()
{
<tab>blah;
}

                But if I turn auto-indent off, it won't move me to the same starting position for the next line, it'll do

                function blah()
 {
  blah;<enter>
blah;
 }

                Where the two "blah"s should be aligned, and I'll have to re-space everything. But other than that it's so handy having all the matching functions/objects/properties/methods show up in a drop-down as you're typing, kinda like Visual Basic. I dunno, I guess if I could find a way around the annoying spacing thing I'd be in business.

                  Not as good as Dreamweaver for HTML. But when coding
                  php pl asp and the same time editing HTML - wow!

                  You may easy switch highlighting mod between'em all.
                  Really good thingy..

                    I use xemacs. It's great and easy to use. At least for me it is. There are color options to view different parts of your programs in different colors. Tags, variables, etc.

                      2 months later

                      BEST CHOISE "NuSphereEd"

                      BEST DEBUGGER
                      BEST EDITOR
                      BEST SUPPORT
                      BEST...

                      They also gave me student discount and they also have 14day evaluation and light version for 49$...:p

                        ZDE or phpED (an old and still free release....)

                        zde is fun but its not free (thnx boss)... a little slow but the debugger works... sometimes...

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