What's the best PHP Editor?

P-J

At the moment I'm using HTML Kit, which is nice, but the syntax highlighting isn't all it could be.

What (TEXT BASED) editors do you guys recommend? I'm personally looking for something simple (not too flashy) that has good syntax highlight for HTML/PHP.

Cheers, Phil.

//edit : I forgot to mention, I'm using M$'s OS

leonleun

emacs

Norman

A couple of good ones I use for Windows NT/XP are:

UltraEdit
Ver nice, there are highlighting "Word" fiels you can download, and can always edit them to add more

Jed:
Linux port of a "Emacs" Style Editor, with nice Coloring support and such

Let me know if that helps
Dave

sgalonska

I guess the choice of the editor is a question of the personal taste. I prefer a graphical GUI so I use Maguma PHP-Studio Desktop that is available for free on their website. www.maguma.com

Norman

Originally posted by sgalonska
I guess the choice of the editor is a question of the personal taste. I prefer a graphical GUI so I use Maguma PHP-Studio Desktop that is available for free on their website. www.maguma.com

Damn.. I've been searching for a IDE for PHP (other than DWMX) I'll have to check this out..

Thanks Man!😃 🆒

z0r

The PHP plugin for Eclipse (an open general language IDE from IBM) by Xored is not bad. Add the syntaxt highlighting and [X]ML plugins, and you've got the complete dev tool (all-in-one).

Only downside to eclipse is that it's JAVA-based (and inherently slow sometimes), but it's platform-independent and has over 220 plugins last I checked (including PHP, Java, C, etc. stuffs).

-zor

stolzyboy

macromedia homesite

z0r

So did the Allaire/Macromedia partner/merger thing actually make HomeSite a Macromedia title now? hrmph...

I'd agree, though... HomeSite is the 0wnz0r of ML & [some] scripting IDE's.

access9

I personally like Maguma Studio too. It's feature packed, has built in function insight, and it's stable and lightweight.

I've used PHPEdit, but it's not stable, and is lacking in features. Don't get me wrong, PHPEdit is nice, but it has a long way to go.

I've also tried PHPEd by NuSphere, it's nice, but commercial and expensive ($299). The installer isn't very user friendly and it does not have [very good] function insight.

Macromedia Homesite is pretty much a HTML editor, and has no PHP features besides syntax highlighting out of the box. This page has some 3rd party PHP add-on's for Homesite.

If you're looking for a basic text editor with syntax highlighting, look in to VIM. Very robust, and kicks the crap out of emacs (I couldn't resist).

If you're still want more choices, check out The PHP Editor List.

Cheers,
a9

darkke

I have to agree with Norman. As far as window$ goes, UltraEdit Rox. It has a lot of useful stuff onboard. IDM's download site.