PHP code writing programs

Anon

Anyone know of any good php code writing programs. Programs like Visual Studio(for c++) that do the same for PHP. I was just looking for something that sped up the process a little. I've tried QaDRAM but I'm have quite a bit of problems with it. Also php studio isn't very usefull either. Maybe I'm just not working them right, but when I goto help, I don't even get an index or content help search.

Thank you

-Jason

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There's codecharge, but none of them are much good.

The moment you try to speed up development using Visual tools, you're bringing a load of problems to your project.

Visual tools generate code accoring to their standards, and if you mess with the source, the visual tool nolonger understands the source and dumps it.
You end up writing workarounds to get the functionality that the visual tool does not support. That usually takes a lot longer than writing the whole thing yourself.

Get yourself a good book on structured programming, and classes etc. Templates also help to speed up developments quite a bit.

A forum, a FAQ, email notification, what else do you need?

Time to YAPF!: http://www.hvt-automation.nl/yapf/

Anon

Well as of this moment, I do a lot of programming on Solaris for C++. On the other hand the Apache Server and MySQL server are running on my personal computer. I was wondering if you know of a good (notepad) type program but with some more functionality. Php outputs errors based on line numbers. Notepad doesn't give you line numbers. So the question is. do you know of any robust text editors that will give me a little more functionality like VI or Emacs does.

Thanks

Anon

Great shareware Editors to try:

1) Editplus (my fovorite) www.editplus.com
2) TextPad www.textpad.com
3) UltraEdit www.ultraedit.com

If you want a full-blown IDE then try:

1) Nusphere PHPED (really nice IDE!!!) $200
2) Zend Studio (a bit buggy) $200

also, if you go the editor route, you will have to get some PHP syntax files, autocomplete files, templates, etc. but after an hour of configuration you should have a pretty nice little editor that can significantly increase productivity.

Hope this helps,

Mike

Anon

"PHP syntax files, autocomplete files, templates, etc"

not sure what you mean, by these. Could you explain what you are talking about a little more in detail.

And how do you configure those with and Editor like EditPad??

Anon

nevermind, I figured it out.

mikeq

Freeware
a good editor is PHPEdit - www.phpedit.com

Mike