I use SourceEdit with the PHP-HTML lang addin.
Editor used for PHP
24 days later
For Windows and for just about any general editing, I use Zeus Edit. It has built in syntax highlighting for PERL and HTML, and you can create your own for PHP (derive from PERL). It can handle very large files, and a MDI interface, and a good mix of editing caps.
I have stopped using NOTEPAD for anything except the very quick viewing of small txt files.
I am currently using Maguma but I am stuck with this until I can find a good one.
Originally posted by Tekron-X
Anyone have a editor that I will like lol none of the ones I found suit me anymore. I want a nice IDE with debugging etc... But I need a free one and Maguma I do not like or XPHP the more I use them the more I hate them.
You should try PHPEdit, editor and debugger. It's quite powerful and the next release will have a lot of improvements. I also like Zend Studio, the Personal and Free Edition is pretty cool. However some features are disabled: debugger, class/function browser...
JM
Originally posted by laserlight
I'm starting to use win32pad on M$ Windows as my general purpose text editor, and it seems pretty good.
I like Metapad (http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/):
- Display line numbers
- Highlight urls
- Fast to launch and low memory usage
- Notepad-like
...
JM
a month later
What I like about Zend is that it does code completion for user-defined classes and functions. As far as I know, it's the only PHP editor to do so.
5 days later
I only use dreamweaver mx, I dont even bother with the wssywyg mode, I only have it set in code only view, the syntax highlighting is great!
but... it isnt free...
14 days later
you guys should all check out Crimson Editor.. its freeware.. very great programming..
you can open up multiple pages at once and easily view them.. do keyword searches throughout a directory and its subdirectories, replace words in your page, or in all opened pages, plus the undo/redo option is fantastic.. and you can have 50 pages open, andif you close down the program, the next time you open it, it will automatically load your unclosed files. its also got the directory list on the left.. there are so many features.. its great
try it out
OS X 10.2.6 - BBEdit 7 ! only the best
7 days later
I use OS X and personally I can't stand BBedit. No offense to those who love it. The best editor I have found works on all OS's. It's the Eclipse project with the phpeclipse plugin.
This baby has awsome syntax highlighting, php parsing on save, class and function outlines, code hints and many other features. The best part is that it's free.
Go to Eclipse.org to get the IDE and go to PHPEclipse.org the php plugin.
This is a nice IDE and works with Java, C#, SQL, and has many neat plugins for things like mp3 players that work inside the IDE. Do a Google search for eclipse plugins.
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4 days later
I've never used anything but Notepad and I'm proud of it. Total control over all my coding!
Although once I did try to use Internet Notepad, but it wasn't working properly, so from then on I've been using Notepad. Oh yeah, I did use PuTTY a few times, because we had to use it at a computer camp I went to.
Go Notepad! Although I will try some of the programs mentioned here.
But PuTTY is not an editor ...!!
It's an SSH/Telnet client ...
What editor did you use on the host you PuTTY'd to?
Like, 'vi', 'ed', 'emacs', 'pico', 'nano', .etc....
didn't want to dig thru the thread to see if i already said this, but HOMESITE is the way to go for color coded text editor
I've never used anything but Notepad and I'm proud of it.
The fact that Notepad freaks out in the presence of UNIX text files makes it pretty useless to me. I also prefer to be able to insert tabs as spaces.
If I want a quick, light-weight, Notepad-style text editor, I use EditPad Lite. If I want color coding and some file management capabilities, but prefer to stick with a Windows style GUI, I use HomeSite. If I want color coding, but I'll be doing a lot of typing and don't want/need a Windows-style GUI, I use vim. If I want code completion, I use Zend Studio.
Originally posted by elToro
The fact that Notepad freaks out in the presence of UNIX text files makes it pretty useless to me. I also prefer to be able to insert tabs as spaces.
If I want a quick, light-weight, Notepad-style text editor, I use EditPad Lite. If I want color coding and some file management capabilities, but prefer to stick with a Windows style GUI, I use HomeSite. If I want color coding, but I'll be doing a lot of typing and don't want/need a Windows-style GUI, I use vim. If I want code completion, I use Zend Studio.
by the way, i don't use pre homesite 5's dreamweaver like design section, i only use it to code, don't like the wysiwyg's
Originally posted by elToro
The fact that Notepad freaks out in the presence of UNIX text files makes it pretty useless to me
To solve this i've made a little c program that add line-feed at end of each line. If someone need i can post it somewhere...
by the way, i don't use pre homesite 5's dreamweaver like design section, i only use it to code, don't like the wysiwyg's
Is that what you thought I meant by a Windows-style GUI? I meant menu bars, toolbars, standard Windows shortcut keys, and the like (as opposed to a non-GUI interface like Vim).
Originally posted by elToro
Is that what you thought I meant by a Windows-style GUI? I meant menu bars, toolbars, standard Windows shortcut keys, and the like (as opposed to a non-GUI interface like Vim).
no, it was just an afterthought, but it was the GUI that sprung the afterthough initially
I feel compelled to add that as a text editor for CSS and (X)HTML, TopStyle Pro (from the original author of HomeSite) is the crap (in a good way)!