PHP Beautifier

Anon

Is there some program for Windows that will "beautify" PHP code? By this, I mean indent and space all the code according to some logical and consistant system. I am trying to debug a bunch of ugly code I didn't write myself, and it would be a lot easier if it were indented with some sort of consistancy.

Thanks,
Travis

dopefish

I use Allaire's Cold Fusion Studio. V4 recognizes PHP and gives it it's own color scheme - different colors for things like function names, variables etc. It has a handy feature that lets you select a block of text and then click a button to indent each line as opposed to scrolling down and indenting each line manually. It also has a file explorer window that lets you easily browse folders and open files. There are plenty of other neat tricks it can do, but those are the ones I find most useful.

mithril

Travis,

I personally use EditPlus for the coding (PHP, PHP-GTK, Java, C, etc) I do in Win32. It does all the things that dOpefiSh mentioned in Alliare's HomeSite for all the languages I mentioned plus Perl, HTML, and others. The syntax and auto-completion files are user-editable and pretty easy to follow. However, I don't think either EditPlus or HomeSite will do what you seem to be looking for..... auto-formatting badly written code into something a bit more sensible. However, they will both make it a bit easier to bit the code apart when you're trying to reformat. HTH!!

Cheers,

Geoff A. Virgo

Anon

Beautify PHP at

http://www.bierkandt.org/beautify/

is what you want ;-))

Jens