Best IDE for PHP...?

[Frank]

What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?
What do you use and why?
Thanks.

[Palantir]

Frank wrote:

> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?
> What do you use and why?
> Thanks.

I love quanta. It features code highlighting, autocompletion of variables
and functions, tooltips for function parameters, structure, project and
file browsing and much more... Url: quanta.sourceforge.net

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[Frank]

Any others? Please provide OS you are using, thanks.

[Ruben van Engelenburg]

Frank wrote:

> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?
> What do you use and why?
> Thanks.

I like the Zend Development Environment. It's got context-sensitive
help, hit-highlighting, auto completion and a lot of other nice features.
It also allows you to (remotely) debug, although that's rather slow. I
think they could improve that part.

Regards,
Ruben.

[steffen horst]

> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?

> What do you use and why?

i like crimson editor for windows. [url]www.crimsoneditor.com[/url]. supports

* highlighting (for different syntax types like html, php, java, xml,
tex....) * hotkey for compiler with capture-output-frame (pressing eg.
ctrl+1 will show you php syntax errors)
* ftp: remotely load and save documents
* search & replace with regular expressions
* support for different files formats (mac, dos, unix)
* convert spaces to tabs, tabs to spaces
* macros
* a few other functions

well that's nearly all...

question: what editor is better than this one?

steffen

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[Zac Hester]

On Windows, you can't beat TextPad (textpad.com). For those of you
developing on your Windows box and transfering to your UN*X/linux box this
seems to be the best program I've found. It's very powerful and flexible.
It's super-easy to learn and use. It allows you to set up hot keys to run
external programs (like FTP clients and compilers) with a single keystroke.
It's by far the best 20-some-odd dollars I've ever spent on a piece of
software. (It has helped me write a couple thousand dollars worth of
software since I found it.)

- Syntax Highlighting
- Macro Sequences
- Hot Keys (to editor commands or external programs)
- Character/Tag Libraries (Clip Libraries)
- Spell Checking
- Multiple Document Management
- Regular Expression Search/Replace
- Supports all text file encoding types.

On UN*X, I've been working with XEmacs and after you get passed the learning
curve, it has proven to be extremely powerful. I've also used KATE (KDE
Advanced Text Editor) which seemed to do just fine and had very little
overhead. A good choice for people used to Windows software.

If you're looking for a true IDE (not just a string of programs that work
well together), I've yet to find one that wasn't very clunky and slow. In
my experience, it's best to just install Apache and PHP on your desktop,
edit the files using your favorite text editor, and have a browser open to
the pages you're editing. The other option (without installing Apache/PHP)
is to set up an advanced text editor (like XEmacs or TextPad) to
automatically update your files on the remote host. When I'm editing on
Windows and need to keep the files up-to-date on my server, I use TextPad
with FTPVoyager (it has a nice command-line interface which makes it easy to
set up an automated task in TextPad).

If you're going to use a text editor and combine it with other programs,
you'll be way better off when working with other development environments.
Nobody only programs in PHP and doesn't ever touch HTML, JavaScript, or XML.
I need to be able to work with all of these languages (and a few more).
Using nine different editors is a waste.

XEmacs is open source, and TextPad is free to try. Have a look and see what
you think.

Take care,
Zac



"Frank" <fpeavy@pop.net> wrote in message
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> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?
> What do you use and why?
> Thanks.

[2metre]

[url]http://www.chami.com/html-kit/[/url]

What's particluarly good is the ability to create your own plug-ins
and there are some very good plug-ins to assist in PHP and MySQL coding
available from the main site.

"Frank" <fpeavy@pop.net> wrote in message
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> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?
> What do you use and why?
> Thanks.

[laura]

(win)
I'm currently using -- editplus -- which is also usefull for creating short
and fast html test pages. it has highlighting for various languages and
comes with ftp service.

laura

"Zac Hester" <news@planetzac.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3f0e30b1@news.enetis.net...

> On Windows, you can't beat TextPad (textpad.com). For those of you
> developing on your Windows box and transfering to your UN*X/linux box this
> seems to be the best program I've found. It's very powerful and flexible.
> It's super-easy to learn and use. It allows you to set up hot keys to run
> external programs (like FTP clients and compilers) with a single

keystroke.

> It's by far the best 20-some-odd dollars I've ever spent on a piece of
> software. (It has helped me write a couple thousand dollars worth of
> software since I found it.)
>
> - Syntax Highlighting
> - Macro Sequences
> - Hot Keys (to editor commands or external programs)
> - Character/Tag Libraries (Clip Libraries)
> - Spell Checking
> - Multiple Document Management
> - Regular Expression Search/Replace
> - Supports all text file encoding types.
>
> On UN*X, I've been working with XEmacs and after you get passed the

learning

> curve, it has proven to be extremely powerful. I've also used KATE (KDE
> Advanced Text Editor) which seemed to do just fine and had very little
> overhead. A good choice for people used to Windows software.
>
> If you're looking for a true IDE (not just a string of programs that work
> well together), I've yet to find one that wasn't very clunky and slow. In
> my experience, it's best to just install Apache and PHP on your desktop,
> edit the files using your favorite text editor, and have a browser open to
> the pages you're editing. The other option (without installing

Apache/PHP)

> is to set up an advanced text editor (like XEmacs or TextPad) to
> automatically update your files on the remote host. When I'm editing on
> Windows and need to keep the files up-to-date on my server, I use TextPad
> with FTPVoyager (it has a nice command-line interface which makes it easy

to

> set up an automated task in TextPad).
>
> If you're going to use a text editor and combine it with other programs,
> you'll be way better off when working with other development environments.
> Nobody only programs in PHP and doesn't ever touch HTML, JavaScript, or

XML.

> I need to be able to work with all of these languages (and a few more).
> Using nine different editors is a waste.
>
> XEmacs is open source, and TextPad is free to try. Have a look and see

what

> you think.
>
> Take care,
> Zac
>
>
>
> "Frank" <fpeavy@pop.net> wrote in message
> news:5a51af69.0307100841.79132983@posting.google.c om...

> > What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?
> > What do you use and why?
> > Thanks.

>
>

[laura]

can you explain better how I can do to integrate ftp into Textpad?
I still love it!

laura


"Zac Hester" <news@planetzac.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3f0e30b1@news.enetis.net...

> On Windows, you can't beat TextPad (textpad.com). For those of you
> developing on your Windows box and transfering to your UN*X/linux box this
> seems to be the best program I've found. It's very powerful and flexible.
> It's super-easy to learn and use. It allows you to set up hot keys to run
> external programs (like FTP clients and compilers) with a single

keystroke.

> It's by far the best 20-some-odd dollars I've ever spent on a piece of
> software. (It has helped me write a couple thousand dollars worth of
> software since I found it.)
>
> - Syntax Highlighting
> - Macro Sequences
> - Hot Keys (to editor commands or external programs)
> - Character/Tag Libraries (Clip Libraries)
> - Spell Checking
> - Multiple Document Management
> - Regular Expression Search/Replace
> - Supports all text file encoding types.
>
> On UN*X, I've been working with XEmacs and after you get passed the

learning

> curve, it has proven to be extremely powerful. I've also used KATE (KDE
> Advanced Text Editor) which seemed to do just fine and had very little
> overhead. A good choice for people used to Windows software.
>
> If you're looking for a true IDE (not just a string of programs that work
> well together), I've yet to find one that wasn't very clunky and slow. In
> my experience, it's best to just install Apache and PHP on your desktop,
> edit the files using your favorite text editor, and have a browser open to
> the pages you're editing. The other option (without installing

Apache/PHP)

> is to set up an advanced text editor (like XEmacs or TextPad) to
> automatically update your files on the remote host. When I'm editing on
> Windows and need to keep the files up-to-date on my server, I use TextPad
> with FTPVoyager (it has a nice command-line interface which makes it easy

to

> set up an automated task in TextPad).
>
> If you're going to use a text editor and combine it with other programs,
> you'll be way better off when working with other development environments.
> Nobody only programs in PHP and doesn't ever touch HTML, JavaScript, or

XML.

> I need to be able to work with all of these languages (and a few more).
> Using nine different editors is a waste.
>
> XEmacs is open source, and TextPad is free to try. Have a look and see

what

> you think.
>
> Take care,
> Zac
>
>
>
> "Frank" <fpeavy@pop.net> wrote in message
> news:5a51af69.0307100841.79132983@posting.google.c om...

> > What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?
> > What do you use and why?
> > Thanks.

>
>

[Andy Jeffries]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:41:52 -0700, Frank wrote:

> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?

I don't know about IDE, but I use gPHPEdit...

> What do you use and why?

Because I wrote it and am continually adding user-requested features...
;-)

Cheers,


Andy

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

[email]fpeavy@pop.net[/email] (Frank) wrote in message news:<5a51af69.0307100841.79132983@posting.google. com>...

> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?

I use both PHPEdit & Dreamweaver.

> What do you use and why?

* Dreamweaver to create HTML pages too quickly (I personally hate
DW's PHP support)

* PHPEdit ([url]www.phpedit.net[/url]) is fast. Auto completion of function
names, variable names (even of included file's), local objects &
methods.... Has debugger. Has documentation tool named "help
generator". And PHPEdit is free & the authors are cool.

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[Brandon Blackmoor]

steffen horst wrote:

>
> i like crimson editor for windows.
> question: what editor is better than this one?

TextPad is better. However, Crimson Editor is free, and TextPad is not.
Crimson may be the best *free* text editor for Windows.

[Joshua Ghiloni]

> emacs
>

Ah, emacs ... Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping :)

Flame on, folks, flame on.

[Joshua Ghiloni]

Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:

> I prefer VIM.

And how!

[Louis-Philippe Huberdeau]

Joshua Ghiloni wrote:

> Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:
>

>> I prefer VIM.

>
>
> And how!
>

What did that mean exacly? Was it a question? You might want to make a
complete sentence for me to understand...

[Zac Hester]

"laura" <biru43@yahoo.it> wrote in message
news:belv5f$n5n$1@newsreader2.mclink.it...

> can you explain better how I can do to integrate ftp into Textpad?
> I still love it!
>
> laura

Hey Laura,

No problem. (FYI: The help menus in TextPad and my FTP Program were all I
needed to figure this out. Consult your FTP program for the same
capabilities as mine.)

First, I use FTP Voyager 10. It has a very powerful command line interface
which allows me to set up macros from any program that I need to use FTP
capabilities. Looking up the options for the command line, I found these
arguments:

C:\Program Files\RhinoSoft.com\FTP Voyager\FTPVoyager.exe host=myhost.com
user=myusername pass=mypassword remote=htdocs put="C:\My
Directory\MyFile.html" autoquit=1 -nosplash -noduration

Running this from a command prompt will automatically upload the file
specified by the "put" argument to myhost.com and after it's complete, FTP
Voyager will close.

This means it's just a matter of telling TextPad how to use FTP Voyager, and
we're ready to go...

To set up a "Tool Macro" in TextPad 4.6, you just go to Tools ->
Preferences...

At the very bottom of the Preferences tree, there is an item called "Tools."
To add a new tool, click on "Tools" and click the "Add" button followed by
selecting "Program." There, you'll get a chance to browse to the program
you want to add. Choose the main executeable for your FTP program and click
"Open."

This will then spit you back to the Preferences window with a new tool on
the list. To make changes to this tool (which we need to do), expand the
"Tools" branch on the main preferences tree and click on the name of your
new tool. Add the command line options to the "Parameters" line (everything
after the executeable). To make this feature userful, TextPad has a lot of
built-in Macro variables that refer to the currently active document. To
make FTP Voyager upload the active document in TextPad, we'll need to
replace the "put" argument's value with this:

put="$File"

TextPad will replace $File with the full path to your current file. (The
quotation markes are necessary since you'll probably have spaces in your
path like "Documents and Settings.")

After all the parameters are set, click "Apply," then "Ok." Now, check your
"Tools" pull-down menu. You'll notice a new entry at the bottom for your
new tool. You'll also notice it was assigned a hot key sequence. If this
is your first tool, it will be "Ctrl-1."

To test it out, start up a new (non-critical) file and put something in it.
Save it somewhere (the file has to exist on the disk before any FTP program
can find it). Then, just hit "Ctrl-1." In FTP Voyager, the program springs
to life, connects to the host, transfers the file, disconnects, then exits.

If you read the TextPad help menu, you'll see all kinds of other useful
things that can be used with Tool Macros. You can even link in Java
programs or write your own, custom compiled programs or scripts to do more
complex tasks. Check out textpad.com and look through the "Utilities"
section under "Add Ons" and look to see if someone already has built
something that you need TextPad to do.

Happy Editing,
Zac

[Bertrand Mollinier Toublet]

Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:

>
>
> Joshua Ghiloni wrote:
>

>> Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:
>>

>>> I prefer VIM.

>>
>>
>>
>> And how!

(Et comment !)

>>

>
> What did that mean exacly? Was it a question? You might want to make a
> complete sentence for me to understand...
>

HTH
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"Reality exists" - Richard Heathfield, 1 July 2003

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Frank wrote:

> What is the best IDE for developing PHP applications?

I don't know.

> What do you use

emacs

> and why?

Best code editor (well... best whatever-text-thing editor) around IMHO.
Very very fast, incredibly extensible, cross-platform, and don't require
me to learn a new editor for each language.

Bruno

[Joshua Ghiloni]

> Okay, let's see how this holy war's doing...

>
> Bruno

Your Favorite Editor Sucks! (TM) :)

And no, I don't like emacs. I don't have anything particularly against
it, I just never got the hang of the keyboard shortcuts. I much prefer
vi. Vim is nice, but good ol' vi is all I really need to do anything :)

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Joshua Ghiloni wrote:

>

>> emacs
>>

>
> Ah, emacs ... Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping :)
>
> Flame on, folks, flame on.
>

You like it, don't you ?-)

I knew this would start this ol'holywar once again...

<not-so-seriously>
Hey, I even wonder if I didn't hope for it to happen <g> !->
</not-so-seriously>


Now those having eyes may have noticed that I didn't pretend emacs being
the best editor, nor even being superior to any other in any way... Just
answered to the second question <g++>

Okay, let's see how this holy war's doing...

Bruno