Hey guys.
I search for an PHP editor for Linux. Under Windows I am using Scriptly.
I like this Editor a lot but I didn't find anything suitable for Linux yet. Do you know a newbie-friendly PHP editor for Linux which is similar to Scriptly?
greetz lllllloyd
Ther is a plethora of (probably to many) editors available for Linux I use Zend as an ide Gedit and bluefish as a quick edit tool and have just been trting out Netbeans ide which looks good so far. All except Zend are free.
There's Aptana, Komodo IDE, Zend, Eclipse with PDT plugin, gedit.....
Open up your package manager (Synaptic for Ubuntu, YUM for Fedora) and browse by groups. Open the "Editors" group and peruse that.
And there are some that will just tout ViM as the end-all be-all of editors....
bpat1434;10890544 wrote:There's Aptana,....
If you try Aptana, be sure to get the latest beta/release-candidate of the PHP plug-in. The earlier versions had a few quirky/buggy problems, but the latest is looking pretty good now. See http://forums.aptana.com/viewtopic.php?t=7014 for info on installing it.
There still are a few bugs... like it doesn't always show you code intelligence for your local libs.... At least that's what i've seen at work using cakePHP... But still a good editor
Yeah, it's definitely not perfect yet, but I've been using it a lot lately (under Windows, mind you) and it's starting to grow on me.
I got tired of having 2 Gigs of memory go down the tubes when a 500+ line file got opened up (it was javascript, so it's not like it's that intensive to parse). No option was given to not syntax highlight the file 
So I moved over to Komodo. I'll probably purchase the business license in a couple weeks. I like it. My only gripe is that I can't keep closed projects visible in the projects pane; although, I guess it makes sense to hide them.
Hmm...maybe a Linux thing? I just tried opening a 7000-line javascript file in Aptana and memory usage barely showed a bump in Windows Task Manager. (Likewise for a 3000-line PHP file.)
Still using my Zend Studio 5 (although a little painful to setup in newer distros) and loving it in Linux. It's the same in Linux or Windows really. I did struggle through getting the PHP Eclipse plugins working with Eclipse the other day. I like it other than you still have to sync websites (I couldn't find a way to work on files directly over remote protocol such as ftp. Then again, I gave up because Zend Studio works just fine already.) Maybe I'm just not fond of Eclipse but I don't really care for the new Zend Studio based on Eclipse either.
NogDog;10890842 wrote:Hmm...maybe a Linux thing? I just tried opening a 7000-line javascript file in Aptana and memory usage barely showed a bump in Windows Task Manager. (Likewise for a 3000-line PHP file.)
I was in windows. Could be that I also had a 1 GB site open (and when I say 1 GB, I mean 1 G
as well as a couple others. Not to mention that the other day (and this was the final straw) the code completion mechanism went haywire. As I typed in a variable name, it would give me a drop-down of variables; however, if I mistyped, it would freeze for a good 30 seconds while it thought about it. I can't work like that. Zend Neon did the same thing some times.
bretticus wrote:Still using my Zend Studio 5 (although a little painful to setup in newer distros) and loving it in Linux. It's the same in Linux or Windows really. I did struggle through getting the PHP Eclipse plugins working with Eclipse the other day. I like it other than you still have to sync websites (I couldn't find a way to work on files directly over remote protocol such as ftp. Then again, I gave up because Zend Studio works just fine already.) Maybe I'm just not fond of Eclipse but I don't really care for the new Zend Studio based on Eclipse either.
I like the eclipse version if only because it has the Zend Framework built in to it. Easy enough to add a path to each project in ZS 5; however, with Neon it's just there in the code hints automatically. But I don't use it much anymore. My license ran out, and I have no will to pay another $500 when 90% of it is built on a FREE platform....
