Hi
i'm looking for a very basic php editor - ideally the perfect editor would be like notepad2 with colour highlighting and 2 ftp windows down one side for local and remote files - a sort of hybrid of notepad and FileZilla

does this exist ?

I've looked at a fair number of editors in the past few days - and tried a few - but they all have too many bells & whistles

does anyone gave a suggestion ?

thanks

    Check out jEdit. I used this one year or two ago and its quite nice. Theres FTP plugin for loading and saving files.

      thanks for your reply

      well - it does look pretty nice but still too much stuff, lol

      I'm really looking for something as simple as in the attached image - the image is Notepad and FileZilla side by side - but 1 application instead of 2

      maybe its just a pipe dream ...

        If you're on Windows, I use HTML-Kit, which is freeware. They also have a new version called "HTML-Kit Tools" which requires registration (and which I have not tried, so can't comment on). Also, if you search this "Echo Lounge" forum, you'll find a large thread all about PHP editors (probably with too many choices 😉 ).

          Lol - yes I had a look at that thread before and tried a few of the editors - one i tried was in fact HTML-kit which seemed pretty good but still too much stuff in there - I did like the file management workspace thing but couldn't manage to make just a simple default xhtml strict page template (following the instructions on their help site) and gave up - this is kind of the reason why i'm looking for something REALLY simple

          when i get more time maybe I'll get HTML-kit back up on the table and have another go at it as it did seem to be quite close to my ideal editor

          thanks

            Yeah Notepad++ is very good and I myself use it but it still lacks the ftp 🙂

              i haven't tried Notepad++, but I will

              wouldn't it be great if someone put out a really basic Notepad clone with a ton of plugins for all the different functions so you can pick and choose

                i don't fully read theads, lol... i like having ftp as a separate proggy, i use Flash FXP for that 🙂

                  Zawinski's Law of software envelopment applies here, I think.

                  stolzyboy wrote:

                  i like having ftp as a separate proggy

                  You can run two programs at once?! You mean, like hit "save" in the text editor and then hit "upload" in the ftp client?!

                    yeah... and you can EVEN alt-tab or alt-whatever, depending on OS to get from one to the other 🙂

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