Editor used for PHP

[h4x0rmx]

I tried Zend Studio about two years ago and I loved it. The color highlighting was great, and it also had auto completion even for the functions/classes that you made yourself. It was capable of remembering the name of your variables and it helped you with the sintaxis of the php functions. It is now too expensive for my budget and I don't know what improvements it has made... does anyone use it?

I'm currently using PSPad and its pretty good. It's free and highly customizable.

I also like Dreamweaver, but I use it mostly for the design part, not when I'm coding on php.

[bpat1434]

The newest studio runs on the Eclipse platform. It's got Zend Framework integrated directly into it for type hinting.

I think it's worth the $200; however, Aptana seems to be a less-costly alternative to Zend Studio and is built upon Eclipse as well.

Most good IDEs will automatically do everything you described. Even some text editors (Notepad++, EditPlus) will do syntax highlighting and if given proper code, some code insight 😉

There are other good IDEs including NuSphere PhpIDE, ActiveState Komodo, MPSOFTWARE's PHPDesigner, Waterproof's PHPEdit, and Blumental's WeBuilder 2008 or RapidPHP 2008.

[h4x0rmx]

I gotta do some research and try some IDEs then, as you can see I've been away from the php world for a while.

[schwim]

What a fantastic read. From those that prefer to etch their code in stone tablets with nothing more than a sharpened stone to those that would like their editor to wipe their backside.

Thanks to everyone who posted in this thread over the years.

[NogDog]

Another IDE option to look at is NetBeans PHP. I'm not going to say it's better or worse than any of the others mentioned here; just that it's worth a look, too.

[kostis12345]

I'm using windows and phpDesigner 2008 professional

[NogDog]

NogDog;10909746 wrote:

Another IDE option to look at is NetBeans PHP. I'm not going to say it's better or worse than any of the others mentioned here; just that it's worth a look, too.

This tip might be of use to those trying out NetBeans: http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2009/04/05/netbeans-opening-a-non-project-file/

[clod]

I use free PHP IDE Codelobster PHP Edition.

[chrisguk]

Hi,

A bit of a random post really. I wanted to get a feel of what other developers or wannbe developers are using to write/edit their PHP and other related code:

In the past I have used Scite, Notepad ++, GEDIT and Bluefish

Considering I use Ubuntu platforms only it would be good to know what everyone else uses with pros and cons?

[traq]

on Ubuntu, I use Kate (gedit also, but less often). I use Notepad++ when I'm on windows.

[chrisguk]

bradgrafelman;11002196 wrote:

Thread moved to Echo Lounge.

Speaking of the EL, you might want to search this forum for threads containing "editor" - it's been discussed several times (usually to great length IIRC) across a few different threads here.

@

Thanks Brad I didnt notice the Lounge for some reason, I will try to remember to post stuff like that here in the future.

On the note of Editors, I didnt want to make it a research project because I already have my favourites, I was just being curious as to what other people use. Not forgetting there are probably many more new users of the forum since the previous threads.

But many thanks all the same 🙂

[NogDog]

Still Komodo Edit for me.

[laserlight]

chrisguk wrote:

What PHP editor do you use?

One that is better than yours, even if you're using the same one :p

Jokes, aside: Geany. It has most of the usual stuff for programming text editors, is multi-platform and comes as open source software at zero price.

[jeepin81]

Too be honest notepad++ drives me crazy that you can't left arrow up to the next line!!! wtf... Is it just me?

Netbeans is great!

If you're getting started anything w/ debug will be your savior and enemy! choose wisely!

[traq]

jeepin81;11002216 wrote:

Too be honest notepad++ drives me crazy that you can't left arrow up to the next line!!! wtf... Is it just me?

?? do you mean

 line 1
|line 2

[<]

 line 1|
 line 2

?

I think I'm missing something

[Derokorian]

I'm still a huge fan of Komodo Edit. The new version has some very nice improvements, including inline lint checking. It is also cross platform.

[jeepin81]

@ - yeah that is what I'm referring to. It's not a huge deal at all but I switch between notepad++ and gedit so it just kind of throws me off a little.

Is this just a setting or possibly an issue w/ my instal? my notepad++ runs on vm w/ w7. I've google searched it but didn't find much..

[cretaceous]

phpdesigner - though really all I use it for is code colour and brace matching
(do all my debugging via local apache )
whenever I try something else I find a reason to go back to what I know

[Derokorian]

cretaceous;11002245 wrote:

whenever I try something else I find a reason to go back to what I know

+1 😃

[chrisguk]

One the posts mention Geany, I used it for about an hour this morning and I have to say its cool. I love the terminal feature coz it's a pain switching back and fore to the terminal. A nice editor