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. 🙁

                  I also use PHP Edit. It is quite buggy and the website is seriously 'under construction' (the debug and FAQ pages are completely empty) but I like the auto-prompt, colour-coding, line numbering and so on. The automatic completion can be a pain, as it often gives you what you don't want and you have to delete it. You can probably switch it off somehow.

                  I like the feature which fades the code sections when you switch from PHP to HTML and vice versa, so only the appropriate code is in colour.

                  When you save, you often get error messages, but the file still saves. The messages are good French practice, though: Erreur dans le module ...

                  The installation routine is good French practice :-).

                  Bonne chance!

                  Norman

                    5 days later

                    For those still using pico (not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that)......nano is superior. They've added a 'replace' function that's real useful....for example, converting scripts written when register_globals was "ON"......

                    Also, it seems to have a better understanding of backspace/delete....

                    A while back I pulled down "AnyEdit" to run on a win9x box at home, and it segfaulted immediately...... so I've not done any research into anything 'fancier' at this time.....

                    dalecosp

                      Originally posted by dannys
                      Both EditPlus and UltraEdit can open/save files over FTP. I'm sure there are plenty more.

                      Oh, I'm in love now. I've been using EditPlus for quite a while now and I love it. However, I didn't know about this feature. There is no way I'm switching editors now 🙂

                      I did try HTML-Kit a while back, but it seems a little sluggish to me, and that's not something I like in a text editor.

                      As for my system, my desktop is running Windows XP Professional and my server is running Mandrake 9.0. I do my editing on my desktop and then upload to my server (used to use FlashFXP for the transfers, but now that I know that EditPlus will do it automatically for me, I won't need to use that anymore).

                      --kinadian

                        tbh I have downloaded Context and it goes straight in the "ANNOYING EDITOR" basket. I hate those editors where you can press right arrow and just keep going on a line that ends nowhere...

                          hehe, I can understand what you are saying. What editor do you use?

                            MSE (Microsoft Script Editor, macro editor in Word 200x, core editor of the Visual Studio)
                            No PHP syntax highlighting but great editor (vertical Select, regexp search and replace, need I say more?)

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                              There is only one editor worth having HTML Kit

                                Originally posted by allen_coombs
                                There is only one editor worth having HTML Kit

                                I used HTML-Kit for a little while, but I found it really slugglish. It was as though there were so many features that it slowed the whole program down (akin to Microsoft Office products). This is why I switced to EditPlus. Then recently I found out that EditPlus has FTP capabilities, so I was hooked 🙂

                                --kinadian

                                  5 days later

                                  I agree with "kinadian" - i use Edit++. I haven't used anything else, although a friend did try to introduce me to Xemacs, and i have heard of people swearing by notepad.