I use phpedit. Dont know if all those you talk about are just as good.

    I use mostly PHPEdit, mainly for its macro/customization and its syntax highlighting.

    Sometimes I turn DW MX on just to do a quick design of a web page. Then I imitate the code using PHP in PHPEdit.

      3 months later

      I've just started using VIM cos I found that DWMX and Zend studio were too memory heavy for my poor little laptop 🙁

      Anyway, I've found it excellent. It has syntax highlighting for just about every language under the sun.

      Does anyone know of any good VIM tutorials? I found the ones that come with it are a bit confusing.

        Just thought I'd post 'cuz I'm using a new combination of apps all the time now 😃

        Work: UltraEdit.
        Home: ArgoUML + QuantaPlus (kde3.2 version)

        Was using Umbrello, but it completely destroyed a whole days worth of work recently, so I'm Argo from now on. 😃

          Originally posted by piersk
          Does anyone know of any good VIM tutorials? I found the ones that come with it are a bit confusing.

          There's definitely a bit of a learning curve with vim.

          Here's a vim cheatsheet:
          http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html

          basically you need to know vim is a dual moded editor, there's command mode, hit ESC at any time, and you're in command mode, and there's also edit mode, hitting i, a, o, etc in command mode gets you there. Other than that, it's just a bit of memorization and practice of the commands you find most useful.

          i inserts, o inserts a newline, x deletes a character, dd deletes a whole line, d4d deletes 4 lines, u does an undo, ctrl-r does a redo, shift-ZZ saves and exits, :q! quits without saving. Those are the quickies that I use the most, there's other really tricky tips that makes vim really powerful here:
          http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/index.php

          And and the #1 reason I use vim, it's available for windows and linux, so I can use the same editor no matter what OS I'm running at the moment.

            Originally posted by gid
            And and the #1 reason I use vim, it's available for windows and linux, so I can use the same editor no matter what OS I'm running at the moment.

            What about JEdit? 😃

              Originally posted by goldbug
              Work: UltraEdit.
              Home: ArgoUML

              Are you MAAAAD? I had to use that for a couple of my Uni courses and hated it!

              What do you use it for?

                Originally posted by piersk
                Are you MAAAAD? I had to use that for a couple of my Uni courses and hated it!

                What do you use it for?

                I'm assuming you're talking about ArgoUML and not Ultraedit (ultraedit is tha bomb)....
                I use it for general UML Class diagrams, to help plan them out, get relationships/dependencies down, etc. Argo can export the diagrams as PHP (or C++/Java/C#) code, so basically all I have to do is the actual implementation, and save time by not typing the same class structure every time.

                  Originally posted by goldbug
                  What about JEdit? 😃

                  Didn't hear about jedit at the time and vim did everything I needed. 🙂 I've used java editors before, they have a big memory footprint, and there's just something about the weird looking java ui that I can't quite get used to. Oh yeah, and the fonts suck for java under Linux.

                  Things might have changed by now, but I fear I'm probably forever tainted against java apps.

                    Originally posted by goldbug
                    Argo can export the diagrams as PHP (or C++/Java/C#) code

                    REALLY??? Wow!! They don't tell you THAT in OO lectures!

                    With regards to java editors, I found the same thing when trying sun one and also Zend Studio 3.0. They both REALLY slowed down my machine. Also DW to some extent (but not as bad as Zend of studio one).

                      Ultraedit (ultraedit is tha bomb)....

                      UltraEdit is a nice app but it still doesn't handle PHP multiline strings (syntax coloring). Imo it is rather important.

                      Also, someone mentioned "1st page". I looked on their web site and PHP is not mentioned at all in its features (Or "Supported languages") why do you use it then?

                        Originally posted by vitalyb
                        UltraEdit is a nice app but it still doesn't handle PHP multiline strings (syntax coloring). Imo it is rather important.

                        Could you elaborate? I've never had a problem with UltraEdit's syntax highlighting.

                        EDIT: nm, I see what you're saying... I just never do multiline strings like that, so never have run across it 😃.

                          Originally posted by xentrix
                          Largo: I´m sorry I have some old version that´s still free ;-)

                          There was a free version? Where could one obtain a copy?

                          Originally posted by Bunkermaster
                          Jafa cr33!

                          😉

                          w00t, a stargate fan! 😃

                            I use Maguma.

                            The free version works fine. It's got a debugger/previewer. If you've got a local MySql then you can test dB's aswell.

                            Highlighting's pretty handy too.

                              4 days later

                              I use Quanta Plus (Quanta Plus Web Development Environment)
                              on my Linux Mandrake OS. Syntax hilighting is very good,
                              but sometimes it goes nuts and decides to
                              turna few random characters light-green.
                              Probably caused by my coding, but I havn't found where yet... It also has tabs, for those who perfer that.

                                Originally posted by jot-87
                                I use Quanta Plus (Quanta Plus Web Development Environment)
                                on my Linux Mandrake OS. Syntax hilighting is very good,
                                but sometimes it goes nuts and decides to
                                turna few random characters light-green.
                                Probably caused by my coding, but I havn't found where yet... It also has tabs, for those who perfer that.

                                I don't think that's your coding...I think it's a software bug. It happens to me too, but if I close Quanta and reload it, it appears correctly. Usually I just ignore it and keep typing. 😃

                                  Hmm, I get a similar thing sometimes with VIM. It higlights the text as though it were all in quotes (looks like it's a string). If I page up and page down again it's all OK.
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