What are you guys using to edit the PHP?

[Cid Highwind]

I've tried Wordpad, Notepad, even MSWorks.

Every program warps the codes and it gets messed up before I even start editing.

What are you guys using.

[JimF]

Notepad works fine for me :)

-jim

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=12

[Cid Highwind]

Notepad works at first, but then when I save it, it all wraps into one big txt bulg. Plus, the search field was too small.

Anyway, I download textpad and it's wonderful.

[Mike Sullivan]

http://www.ultraedit.com

(Oh, and moving to PHP Coding) :D

[MattR]

TextPad (http://www.textpad.com) is another great text editor and includes a PHP plug in to make everything look all nice and pretty. ;)

[WebStyles]

I like UltraEdit. Plus, it's great to do newsletters in, because it has a handy "Word Wrap After X Characters", then "Convert Word Wrap To LF" functions, makes it easy! :D

[Chris Schreiber]

I hate using notepad.... I have TextPad set up on my system as the default text editor and of course use it for PHP coding as well.. it's nice since it has color syntax hilighting as well. UltraEdit is nice too.

[customcpu]

Am I the only one who uses emacs?? It seems that most of you code in windows, which is very surprising to me.

[doron]

homesite, which has cool php keyword-coloring

[Chris Schreiber]

Originally posted by customcpu
Am I the only one who uses emacs??

Well ok... I do *some* stuff in vi... but most of the time I find it much easier to develop and test on windows.

-Chris

[carp]

I use Arachnophilia.
Its good for just about every kind of internet programming language you can think of.

http://www.arachniod.com/

[eva2000]

http://www.notetab.com

NoteTab Light is all you'll ever need.... this free app is amazing ..... sorry but i had to do this hehe



NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. A slimmer version of the award-winning NoteTab Pro, this slick application makes text editing a breeze. Move quickly around a stack of large
files with a simple tabbed interface. Format your text to your heart's content. Write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional.

If you need to cut and paste chunks from a pile of files, forget the Clipboard: you can set up a Paste Board file to save text clips automatically. Strip HTML tags from your files. Call up complete document statistics instantly. Use
powerful, system-wide search and replace tools.

Speed up your work with text macros: you can use them as shortcuts, or even to auto-replace those persistent typos. Handy sample macro libraries are supplied, and you can easily build your own. Make the most of NoteTab's many options to suit your own workstyle.

[Menno]

I'll stick with textpad :)

Best damn text tool I've ever seen

[Shaman]

vi

No, really. :)

Also nedit on UNIX, and looking at Screem.

[phumphries]

Has anyone created definitions for PHP word highlighting (for the mentioned editors that support custom definitions) that you would care to share?

[customcpu]

John,
All this talk about editors makes me wonder... What platform/editor was vB created in?

[MattR]

Peter,

You can download a free TextPad PHP4 definition file here:
ftp://ftp.textpad.com/pub/addons/syntax/php4.zip

Or if you want a listing of other PHP syntax files (3.0 and whatnot):
http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/ntsyn.html

[phumphries]

Thanks; I knew they were on there somewhere. Not sure how I missed the "Syntax Definitions" link! :)

[MattR]

Peter,
No problem! I highly recommend TextPad, but mainly because I haven't used the other ones out there. However, the PHP4 definition makes it incredibly easy to use with the syntax highliting, coloring, etc.

Give it a try!

[BenchRacer]

Edit Plus (http://www.editplus.com)

[BrianL]

I was wondering whether anyone was going to mention EditPlus. IMO, it's the best text editor out there. Syntax highlighting for tons of languages, as well as HTML buttons like coffeecup or homesite. All in small, cheap, and better yet, FAST package.

[poil11]

on macintosh simpletext or bbedit, get a mac.

[bira]

I use UltraEdit and would swear by it. I can also go over the so many advantages it has over TextPad, but I'll spare you of my enthusiastic talk :)

As for syntax highlighting for UltraEdit - you can download some for PHP from UltraEdit's site. I made my custom one that you can download here (http://www.bira.co.il/php-mysql-wordfile.txt) and then copy/paste at the end of your wordfile.txt file (you can find it in the ultraedit main dir or open it via Advanced -> Configuration -> Syntax Highlighting). You can later change the colours (in "Syntax Highlighting") as I chose a stark contrast of colouring for various commonly used functions, seeing as I'm rather a newbie to PHP and still need visual aids :) :)

[Edited by bira on 08-14-2000 at 10:17 PM]