I'm surprised no one has said EmEditor. I love it!
http://www.emurasoft.com/emeditor3/index.htm
Editor used for PHP
Hi guys!
I use the Maguma Studio light for php. It is free of charge and has nice features like a debuger, auto-wrap etc.
Have a look at : http://www.maguma.com
HawkOfLight
I'm johns friend who use to use dreamweaver. I used Dreamweaver as a learning tool, I basicly used dreamweaver to learn HTML. Do something in the editor and check the source to see what code it wrote.
I swore by dreamweaver for the longest time. I used 1,2,3,4, and DW4DE never used MX. I use pretty much nothing but homesite and ultraedit now. Dreamweaver is a good editor, and can produce compliant html, the thing is you kinda have to teach dreamweaver how to do it. You have to play with the preffrences, till it behaves the way you want.
Many of its features are pretty sweet, it a good editor for projects with more then one developer. Its template feature set is a god send in a situation where theres more then one person developing, provided everyone knows how to use it.
My all time favorite feature which I still to this day use, is dreamweaver can import a delimited text file, and table it for you in less then 10 seconds. I've yet to find another application that will do this, if anyone knows of one pls post a link.
I kinda grew out of dreamweaver, I got fed up with trying to make dreamweaver behave the way I wanted, in the long run it cost me more time, for a while I use to use DW for tables (when I was still a newbie wink), I'm now a Grandmaster Table coder lol. If you don't play Everquest you won't get the Grandmaster joke hehe.
As far as php support, like I said I never used MX so before it was released I had allready switched to homesite and ultraedit perminantly. I've yet to find an application that can help you write PHP like homesite helps you write HTML. Again if anyone knows of any such app post a link.
I appoligize for the long post, I can talk about dreamweaver for days lol.
16 days later
Been using HotDog Profesional for 5 years on Windows 95/98.
I've been programming HTML since 97 with it and when I recently upgraded to the new version was happy to find it supports php, java, css, has made the last few months of learning PHP very easy because it knows the syntext better than I do.
hehe I remember I was using HoTMetaLPro back in 96 
thank God none of the pages I was puking at that time remains 
hehe I remember I was using HoTMetaLPro back in 96 thank God none of the pages I was puking at that time remains
HotMetalPro, that takes me back to about '96 too, ooh what fond memories .... not.
At the moment I am stuck for a good editor, I have tried about 20 in the last 6 months and still looking for a decent one.
Today Im using PHP Edit V0.6 (stable) 
Here is what I would like to see in a PHP Editor:
1. Syntax Highlight support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.
2. File Manager on the side (dockable).
3. Code Structure thingy (shows methods, variables and classes)
4. Extended find and replace with regular expression support.
5. Integrated Debugger.
6. Configurable Macros/Toolbar operations with creation support.
7. Code Block commenting.
8. Sytax Indentation support (as a toolbar option and hot key)
9. Live syntax checking.
10. Multiple page editing .
11. Code block popping/ were you can expand blocks of code like komodo.
12. Code split screen, like homesite.
13. No Cost.
So a mixture of Homesite, Dreamweaver MX, PHP Edit and Komodo. but free.
Anyone who can suggest anything resembling this is a superstar.
I'm also using vim under linux, but I also use vim under windows as well just to have a consistent editor. I made a screenshot for the curious here (under linux):
http://paradise.qooqle.com/pics/vim.png
The code is from my opensource web jukebox program called Room Juice. Just google for it if you're interested.
Pico or vim under RH Linux 7.2
What, can't any of you younguns code without color syntax highlighting??
yes, yes, would'nt it be great if we could all code without colour highlighting ??:rolleyes:
Well answer this Sxooter - if you had to travel 10 miles over a mountain and a bus was ready to take you. Would you turn round and say NO, i'll just walk (because i'm a big professional) ?
He who walks the path of the true believer will prolly walk in a dog turd from time to time
I'm not exactly youngin by php coding standards, but I prefer syntax highlighting because it helps me catch, well, sytax errors. Means less going back and forth, oops misplaced quote here, unmatched parens there, dang, mispelled that function there.
Thanks to syntax highlighting, it's not uncommon for me to write an entire page of php and have it work and be syntactically correct the first time.
If I was out for a hike, I would definitely say no thanks, I'm out for a hike. I've done it before, I'll do it again. And when you fall over in your easy chair from a heart attack with a big hand ful of cheetos stuffed in your mouth, I'll be glad to come and mourn your passing. and I'll still enjoy hiking.
Besides, you ever smelled some of those busses? The inside makes a locker room after a game smell sweet and purty. Plus I've never fallen over a cliff, but plenty of busses go right through the guard rail every day.
Seriously though, I've found that color highlighting causes eye strain for me if it's there all the time, and while I do occasionally miss a quote mark, I've found that by doing things a little differently, I don't do it very often. for instance, I've taught all my programmers that when they create a code block inside {} brackets, they should complete the brackets first, then write the function. I.e. you do this:
function bubbas_house(cars_on_blocks,applicances){
}
[\code]
THEN write what's inside the curly brackets so you don't forget to write one or where it goes at the end.
When I want color coding, I just ln -s mypage.html mypage.phps and view that.Seriously though, I've found that color highlighting causes eye strain for me if it's there all the time
I wonder why this is. Is it because some colors don't contrast as well as others against the background. Actually, most of the time, I'm using vi remotely these days because files are, not available via samba or whatever, so I'll use console vim, which incidentally has better contrasting colors than gvim in my previous screenshot. http://paradise.qooqle.com/pics/vim_console.png
Still with these better contrasting colors, I find my eyes quite bloodshot at the end of the day. Maybe I'll try without syntax highlighting for awhile and see how I fare.
Oh, and I used to use pico until I figured out it was changing dos carriage returns to unix carriage returns. Naughty naughty pico. So now I use nano instead. Besides, pico is a pain to install on a Debian box anyway because of it's non-free nature.
wow that vim looks so hectic to me. i think i would have a panic attack looking at that all day.
i use homesite/cold fustion studio. i like the color coding in that... i'm a little spastic with the typing so when i spell a function name wrong i know right away. i the preferences let you modify them to your liking.
by the way, if anyone has an educational discount the macromedia mx studio is a great deal at $200. it comes with Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Fireworks MX, FreeHand 10, and ColdFusion MX Developer Edition.
i saw that some people do coding in dreamweaver -- i'm a little afraid of letting dreamweaver do anything with code but i have heard that the mx version has pretty good code/db integration.
gimme some walking shoes, a staff and a can of mountain dew and i'll walk from frisco to tahoe
but i understand that VIM can cause severe trauma to the sight brain functions looking at the interface...
Originally posted by Bunkermaster
but i understand that VIM can cause severe trauma to the sight brain functions looking at the interface...
well crap, that explains a lot about me then, now doesn't it?
sad but true... what i use to code is I print my code, i write notes on sheet and then i scan it and pass it through a top notch OCR and i save it as php
Bunkermeister, are you related to Piers Anthony? I remember reading a long time ago in a foreword for a Xanth novel that his favorite method for writing was to go out to the old wood shed and write in pencil on a yellow legal pad, then afterwards, input it by hand into a computer. This was in the days of the Kaypro and such...
I just get out a small magnet and change the bits on the hard drive as they fly by. Make sure no one opens a window and lets in any dust while you're doing this though.
Here is another great Text Editor that is free, It does pretty well with color coding PHP and you can download a couple of plugins for php. I like it because (with the plugin) it has just about any code you could need in php for any type of script. For those of you who know what the HTML-Kit is, you know what I'm talking about, and for those of you who just want to see it, go here:
http://www.chami.com and look for the HTML-Kit.... You'll like it