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 
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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)
Since I began coding with HomeSite, I can't imagine using anything else. The color coding helps a lot with the "eye strain".
works great
I may be speaking for myself here, but the thing is that i dont need a WYSIWYG editor integrated. That's because there's a design team who do the templates and (more important) i like to keep the logic in a different layer. So when i need to do some formating or layout I simply switch to DW MX.
As for php coding am using right now php-edit. It's still in dev. state but i thought i might start using it since they are making big efforts to tune the thing up. I really like the code/class-browser.
Now, what I really dont understand is why some ppl like Notepad so much. Maybe if all the work am doing during the entire day is editing ONE really small script... Hope that's not the case for you
Maybe notepad is so good it deserves a space at the Tools Forum? 
Vi , and that is all. If you would take the time to get in touch with it's more advanced features, you would too.
I use Dreamweaver MX, and I'm running Mac OS X. 
I use Dreamweaver 4 on Windows...other people have called me some stupid coder because I can't write my HTML and thats not true, it just saves me a lot of time. DW 4 has no syntax highlighting for PHP so THERE ha. :p I does do handy stuff with tables though, and the code is clean XHTML.
I do use PHPEdit once in a while but I'm perfectly happy with DW 4, built in sychronization, etc. it works for me.
Snazzy IDE's and syntax higlighting are nice. But nothing beats a plain text editor. It can be anything you want and you can garuntee that where ever you are PHPing it'll be there ready to use on any OS.
I use Magma Studio and Notepad.
Originally posted by largo
I agree, Homesite has great syntax highlighting -- but PHPEd isn't free either, so what're you trying to tell us xentrix?
PHPed used to be free if I'm not mistaken. As I have a copy installed and I didn't pirate it or pay for it...
Yep free
PHPEd is commercial product!
They also have trial evaluation version (maybe you are talking about it?)
You can explore PHPEd here.
www.phped.com or www.nusphere.com
www.editpadpro.com
if I need to work on Winnot
and VIM when I am root
My new editor of choice is Maguma Studio PHP
It is a really clean interface and great syntax coloring and can auto preivew your script in the web browser by the click of a button.
At work I use VIM on Linux... really hard to get used to but it's an excellant editor.
At home I use SourceEdit on windows. My all time favorite editor. I use it for my ASP :eek: coding as well.
On Linux, I just uise Kate for KDE 3.1
---tom
Another greate editor for windows is called Xphp
http://www.syscreations.com/
Grate color coding and has a auto web tester just like maguma
all you do is make sure the server options are set up then you run the script right from Xphp.
The best about this editor is that you have a nice set of custom colors to choose from to get the editor comfortable the only thing I recommend changing though is the comment color. Lime green is nasty on white.
on windows I use acehtml - very stable very good syntax highlighting and on linux I just use plain ol emacs.
I code on Win XP Pro, IIS 5.1, PHP 4.3.1.
And i code in Notepad, in my eyes the best program. I don't need all that fancy coloured highlighted stuff... my eyes are good enought to see the codes