True, I've spilt all kinds of stuff on my keyboard too -- however, it's been holding up since 96.. no jokes. Here is the real shocker though -- it's a Packard bell keyboard. :eek:

The open case thing does deserve a laugh I suppose, though I personally found it quite annoying.

Hmm, anyone here been able to run HomeSite via wine?

    I once spilled coke all over my keyboard. It was a real problem, because of the stickiness. I pressed enter once, and I end up 20 lines down. Makes for buggy programming.

    My dad suggested soaking in water.
    It would have worked, I suppose (he's an EE), but I didn't do it.

      I've never actually had a huge amount of liquid pour into my keyboard, but I've had little drops of water and pop. But, my keyboard is a food/hair trap.

      The base of every key is dirty, and looking between the keys you can see hair.. and endless dirt and crumbs. My old keyboard, I could take off the keys and clean them but not this one (I broke my old one cause when plugging it in, half asleep, I bent all the pins and they fell out.. cheap thing -wireless for me now.)

        I don't know how people can stand java based text editors... I find them to be sluggish.

        I used Jext for awhile, I really really like it's highlighting and it's concept of a word.

        But the autocomplete stuff bothered me too much, it wasnt' very accurate and it would complete things that I didn't want completed. I even tried turning it off, but it did it anyway.
        Also, you could only view one document at a time. You couldn't arrange two mini-windows side by side. Oh, and line numbering was a pain... it has a "gutter" on the left where the line numbers are, and you have to pull it out every single time.

        Jedit doesn't appear to me much different, but I haven't used it very much. I did play enough to realize it has the same sluggishness Jext had.

        I'm nearing the end of my trial with UltraEdit, and I think I'm going to purcahse it. The only things I don't like so far is the LF CR and CR/LF switching from DOS to UNIX doesn't seem to work, it doesn't support very good project collections (like in an explorer-type view), and the highlighting doesn't span multiple lines. It starts over at a new line, making it more difficult to spot mismatches quotes. It has a nifty hex edit mode.

        I've tried Programmer's notepad, but it is kind of buggy. It had no auto-complete. The syntax highlighting was only OK. It would span over multiple lines (making it easy to see missing " mistakes), but it didn't have enough categories of different types of things. I didn't like it's concept of a word. Programmer's notepad also had a hex edit mode, which was cool.

        There's one that looks a lot like VC++ editor called AnyEdit Professional, but it won't work for me :-( it crashes. It's a known problem that I the creator can't seem to fix.
        It would be cool if there was a PHP higlighting module for VC++.

        Xphp has Apache and PHP bundled into it, so you can debug on the fly. This seems nice, but it necessitates all dependencies being the same on your machine and your server. However, it doesn't have some interesting features: it has buttons along the top for common functions. Press the button, and the function call is inserted into your text for you. However, I already installed Apache and stuff on my local machine, I dont' want it twice. (The splash screen looks cool though).

          Hey! And what's about FAR+Colorer??? Check http://rarsoft.com. FAR is on the main download page, and Colorer/ColorerLib is on the plugring page. These are the BEST tools. Really. I'm using them about six years for all kind of coding (PHP/C/Perl/...)!

            I just briefly tried jext, it's okay. I love jedit and all the plugins. Yes java based editors can be sluggish but typically only upon load. When using it's fine. The only thing I miss is the function insight. For example, komodo and zendide have function insight which for example when you type mysql_connect( it'll show the prototype for that function. I started work on such a plugin for jedit but realized I don't know Java. Someone else was going to implement but it's not happened yet. Maybe one day...

            In windows I prefer editplus. Ultraedit is a close second.

              Has anyone used Macromedia Dreamweaver MX? It has a MySQL/PHP option that sounds pretty cool (although I've yet to make it work properly).

                I use DreamweaverMX, and love it!

                But, I'm a GUI guy, and love my Mac very much 😃

                  Textpad all the way.

                    Vi

                    great syntax colouring and as fast as you like.

                    I even use Vi on Window$

                    MrRosary

                      Work System: MacOS X w/ Apache 1.3/PHP 4.2.2/MySQL 3.23

                      Work Editor: BBEdit 7.0 - I can't say enough about this editor. Full PCRE grep search/replace, open/save directly from/to ftp server, CLI tools, highlighting, etc....best editor on a mac hands down.

                      Home System: WinXP w/ Apache 2/PHP 4.1.2/MySQL 3.23

                      Home Editor: HTML-Kit - This is a free 'web IDE' that has highlighting for a wide variety of languages, as well as a pretty decent backing of plugin developers. It has HMTL code completion but not really for PHP, so it may not be the best, but I like the all around features none the less.

                        Notepad/Wordpad combo all the way. That is what I learned PHP & HTML on... and now I also use Dreamweaver, although I know it has it's faults- I still love it like a dysfunctional child.

                        I think that learning with notepad/wordpad is the best way to go... it's like eating saltines for a year, and then suddenly someone puts a big bowl of chocolate pudding in front of you. Yeah, it's not perfect and it will probably make you sick, but WOW you are SO impressed with how much better it is than what you had.

                        I still code PHP in notepad/wordpad but I'm considering taking the plunge and getting that chocolate pudding as it were.

                        Some good PHP Editor ideas on here.. thanks!

                        -Elizabeth

                          I learned on NotePad but I like winsyntax its only downfall is the color schemes but the editor is just like notepad. I am going to try out Xphp not sure if I will like it. I also like the dos editor go to the windows command line and type edit 🙂

                          But if I don't like Xphp I am going to use either winsyntax or notepad 🙂

                            I do it all from my head SKILL lol

                              Hi,

                              i use UltraEdit or MED for editing.

                              both supports syntax highlighting and have a file browser.
                              in MED you can also define projects (remeber file list and open all the files on startup)

                              i tried the zend studio editor es well, but it's not as powerfull as ue oder MED (espacially in replacements a.s.o.)

                              there's only an autocomplete function missing in ue and MED. 🙁