PHP Editors

berbbrown

Hi All

Can anyone point me in the right direction for an IDE for PHP. I know of NuSphere PHPEd which is $495.00. Are their any OpenSource alternatives out there?

Any help please?

Thanks in advance.

danville

I use Source Edit.
www.sourceedit.com

eriksmoen

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I use EditPlus .

maytricks

If you do some searching you can find copies of the pre Nusphere PHPed on the web. That is what I use. I too will not pay $495 for an IDE used for a mostly open-source language.

If you don't find one, PM me and I will tell you where to get it.

m_tt

Does no one use Zend Studio? I love it 🙂

maytricks

You have a link for Zend Studio?

eriksmoen

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Zend Studio runs about $195... it is nice, tho.

arelgee

I am building a PHP MySQL section of my website. I downloaded an editor called cgenie but can't find the link for it. It is free and once I learned the color scheme, it helped my coding a lot. If I see any code that is not red that should be in quotation marks, I know where I messed up.
I will collect all the links to this post and put them on my site.
I will try to test and rate them as I get the time. I downloaded a humongous XML editor only to find it pretty much useless.
rlg

arelgee

http://tucows.sympatico.ca/tucows/htmltext95.shtml

I finally found the link to Code Genie. But this link has a potload of html editors.

The question of a good php editor comes up often but the answer is always changing as more products hit the market.
arelgee@are-l-gee.com

leonleun

i use emacs for all my php coding needs.

it provides syntax coloring, and through writing elisp you can extend it to do anything you want. not to mention it is free. i just better not let my boss know that the way i have emacs set up, it currently writes more of my code than i do...

i better put a disclaimer on here though...emacs probably isn't for a newbie. it can take a bit of a learning curve to really learn everything about it and it isn't always easy to set up.

frymaster

just to be contrary: i would reccommend vim. it's available for *nix/windows/mac osx, has syntax colouring and comes in gui and non-gui (good for fixing things over an ssh connection!) it does take a bit of getting used to but once you get the hang of it it's very efficient.

stolzyboy

macromedia homesite like $80

tha_mink

HTML KIT...color sytax highlighting for every language I use (and a whole bunch of stuff i don't use) built in validator, tidy...work on remote files as if they were local...(ctl-s uploads and saves)...

You can find it here...

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

oh yeah...it's totally free...

c__

I user Maguma Studio (Light) for PHP with integrated (PHP)debugger.

It's working - well the editor is a bit buggy so I did not buy the professional version.

I don't know if it is a "normal" version, I found it on an older CD

Just go to their Homepage

For SQL-Needs I only use one Programm: mySQL-Front 😃 😃 this is the best programm ever, it is free, it is small and it is really fast!

I control 14 databases and tons of tables with this single application, even import/export/backup...

Every klick with the mouse is written clearly as command below so you always see the source-command of what you are doing.
Although it is no longer supported ('cause there is no need :o) you can fetch it here

Spork-Fu

Another editor, not PHP specific, is Activestate Komodo. http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/

Ive used it for quite a while and its pretty decent. One warning, it does chew up a bit of resources, so if you have a slow computer forget running it.

They actually have 2 pricing models for it. $29.95 for "educational" use. If your not working for a company, and if you are, its $295.00. The major selling points for me on it were a built in regex builder. You can create regular expressions very easily and even test them. And the biggest selling point was that it has background syntax checking. You just tell it where PHP is installed and itll run your code as you write it. If theres an error in your code you get little squigglies similar to how MS Word tells you that you misspelled a word. Even gives you the error message when you click on the code thats wrong. I love it for catching things when I forget a semicolon or i forget to escape a quote. It also has support for perl, tcl, python and a bunch of other languages. Also has CVS integration.

Nice editor, but like I said, it is pretty resource hungry. But on the whole, real nice IDE.

minds_gifts

PHPEdit, is also a good pick.

arelgee

Since I posted good words about Code Genie, I should let everyone know this.
Instead of telling you that the free trial period is up, Code Genie starts adding files. I did not read the fine print or something and this caught me completely off guard. When I got scared I would lose some work (I had like 7 files open at the time) I quickly clicked Save All. I have about half a dozen garbage files to erase now.
I could not find a file that I had worked on for two days. Luckily, I had had the foresight to save a previous version, so I only lost a little.
But they lost any chance of a sale with that trick.
I will turn lemons into lemonade and download quite a few and give reviews.
arelgee

arelgee

http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio.php

http://www.editplus.com/

http://www.sourceedit.com/

http://tucows.sympatico.ca/tucows/htmltext95.shtml

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

http://www.maguma.com/home/index.php

http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/

This is the list of php editors so far. There are some others listed that didn't give links. If you have any comments or additions, post them here. I will post these on my website and also reviews.
arelgee@are-l-gee.com

nigeledge

I use emEditor for almost everything. PHP, Java, XML, C++, Perl, HTML, SQL, JS... even Actionscript. The most reliable editor I have ever used.

From the site...

"EmEditor is a general purpose text editor that fully supports Unicode, plug-ins, syntax highlighting, and many other features."

http://www.emurasoft.com/emeditor3/index.htm

jebster

Notepad and PHP Pad all the way! 😃