I just switched to LiveMotion 6 🙂

good functionality increase since 5
doesn't support PHP but shitloads more 😃

    11 days later

    I use zend 🙂 Its pretty good and the best

      I use windows and I use notepad, its great.

        Originally posted by stuartc1
        ...has some great features like code hylighting, integrated debugging and auto complete...

        I use PHP EDIT as well, but I couldn't stand the auto complete feature, and I definitely wouldn't call it great =)

        Took me forever to figure out how to turn it off. I looked everywhere in the program and couldn't find it, and I finally looked in the .ini file and found the option to turn it off. Grr... it annoyed the crap outta me.

        But yeah, I definitely like the program. I just wish the exit screens were in English...

          Homesite

          Well Dream MX is Dreamweaver 4 UltraDev + Homesite. I think Homesite has been discontinuated.

          MX vs GoLive 6

          GoLive 6 has a built-in PHP Debugger, the Zend one ! But I tried the trial for a few weeks and It crashed too many times a day. MX worked fine and It only crashed 2 times and I was able to save the pages before it really shutdown (by not pressing Cancel/OK). A few weeks ago Macromedia released a patch so It's all for the best now. But I miss the GoLive debugger 🙁. Maybe Adobe released a patch too.

          regexp search and replace

          No I use it too! These damn French developers :p
          But I rarely need it. I used UltraEdit RegExp search & replace when I had to port PHP3 scripts to PHP4.1+

          LiveMotion 6

          LiveMotion what ? It's the Flash product from Adobe 🙂
          GoLive 6 is a better product to develop in PHP :p

          zend

          I tried Zend and god I don't like that product. It's the worst pro editor I have ever used. I say EDITOR and not IDE because the project feature really sucks. It's buggy and slow. Moreover It's very expensive and has no pro features, nothing compared to Visual Studio. You better buy GoLive 6 is you need a debugger. Products like PHP Edit, PHPEd, Maguma are great too!

          For me the best software to develop PHP website has the following features:

          • syntax hilighting

          • debugger

          • project

          • FTP sync

          • WYSIWYG HTML editor

          • Code browser (Class Wizard)

          • Anchor (F9)

          • powerful Search & Replace (regexp)

          • plugin/scripting

          I use MX and I miss the debugger but the LiveView is pretty cool. It allows you do automatically visually see what you code. Realtime HTML output.
          Projects can't be save a "MX Project file".
          There are no Class Wizard and I would really need it! I don't like using the Search feature in order to jump from one function to the other. Anchors allow that so It's easier to work between 2 functions, when function A call function B.

          So my ideal IDE would be VS.NET for PHP. But I don't think ActiveState will release it before 2004 🙁

          Does anyone know an IDE that has all these features ?

          PHPCoder

          I started with PHPCoder and It was great! It even had a debugger. Then It became Maguma but I never really tried Maguma.

          HTML-Kit

          I like that one. I don't think It's that sluggish. But the ShiftTab doesn't work well and I often have to click on Indent from the Edit menu, I wonder why... Moreover it has too many useless features! Hundreds of features on the same preferences tabs. I am kinda of lost when I try to look for a feature...

          Actually the best editor I found is MX. But now I will "try again" all the editors you're talking about. I know most of them but It seems I missed some of their features!

          JM

            GoLive 6 never cashed on me... (although GoLive 5 was uter poo)
            LiveMotion is a bit... erm... how to put it kindly?... can't, it's crap.

            I bought the whole Adobe web publishing pack last month 🙂. Great stuff, tbh i never seen such a vast variety of features so stable... I am awed

              Originally posted by Bunkermaster
              GoLive 6 never cashed on me... (although GoLive 5 was uter poo)
              LiveMotion is a bit... erm... how to put it kindly?... can't, it's crap.

              I bought the whole Adobe web publishing pack last month 🙂. Great stuff, tbh i never seen such a vast variety of features so stable... I am awed

              yep.. adobe make some good stuff? I just love photoshop. Though it has a hefty price tag of over $1k here.

              As for me? I use winsyntax
              http://winsyntax.com

              I've just finished reading all the posts and I dont reccomend you try this one out Bunkermaster 🙂 as I read you dont like editors where you can scroll on one line forever and it doesn't ever break to the next line until you hit enter.

              Well I've read one of the posts about maguma and I'm downloading the full feature free version (16 megs.. this better be good 🙂).

              I was apprehensive at first but when I read it had a built in debugger and had all these great features.. I just had to try it out..

                4 days later

                FYI. I just added a new category of forums called "Tools" and added forums under it for Dreamweaver, Studio and PHPEd.

                  7 days later

                  I am sad to announce that GoLive has a MAJOR issue with copy paste that craps the code beyond return :eek:

                  ....

                  I am back to MSE

                    Hi Folks,

                    I just found out about a site thats dedicated to PHP Editors. Check it out at PHP-Editors.com , it just started up but looks really great.

                      10 days later

                      Another one to add to the list. (Free)

                      Code-Genie

                      Basically notepad with syntax highlighting.

                        Phew, a lot to take in here. I am currently using a small unknown alpha-version editor and notepad/wordpad, but I was looking for something a little more in-depth. I think (and it is a think because of all these posts) I should use either HTML-kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/) or Source Editor. All I really need is syntax coloring and in-built FTP.

                        Any suggestions would be grately appreciated 🙂.

                        Luke

                          textpad all the way now

                          MSE b0rked after I reinstalled MS Word 2000 so Textpad all the way (even bought it to support software production)

                            6 days later

                            Since I began coding with HomeSite, I can't imagine using anything else. The color coding helps a lot with the "eye strain".