Favorite PHP editor?

I know there are a bunch of coders in our community, so I think I'll use this venue to get some insight. Which editor is your favorite for doing php?

I'm looking for a full IDE, because for just low-level stuff, I just use Notepad Plus.

I've been using Eclipse with a plugin called php-eclipse, I think, but I changed to Zend Studio a while back. I'm trying out NuSphere PhpED and Dreamweaver now, because we used dreamweaver in one of my classes, and it seems pretty neat.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

blankfist says...

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Notepad Plus! HAHAHAHAHA! Notepad Plus?! BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You're poor.

Kidding. I've learned that if I don't add the after everything I write, people get angry, but if you put a behind it, no matter how offensive or terrible, people tend to brush it off. gwiz likes little boys. gwiz is the most boring member of the Sift. See? A clean slate of emotions every time!

But, yeah, Eclipse.

blankfist says...

I am so raping your mother tonight.

Actually, I don't program too much in php (and by too much, I mean nearly never). When I do, I use dreamweaver for its ease of use. I've never been a huge fan of eclipse. To be honest, I still use Flash as my complete ActionScript IDE, though many find its coding interface to be anything but helpful.

I am going to tear your mom's walls open.

dgandhi says...

>> ^gwiz665:
I think I've tried vim before, but if I remember correctly it's a lot like emacs.. and I fucking hate emacs.


Okay, thems fighting words. That's like calling the Hatfeild's the Mccoy's, vi is not emacs, AT ALL. The only similarities are that they edit text files, have console interfaces, and they are both powerful tools.

vi is a small state based text editor, and emacs is a secondary operating system which can do ANYTHING...If you know how to find the command.

Emacs has a much steeper learning curve, and I have not bothered because vi does everything I need to do with text files. Most things I want to do I can do with simple unix tools (sed/awk/grep), and vi makes that easy. You only need to know a dozen or so control keys to get around easily in vi, it is not the monstrosity of emacs.

seriously vim and gnutools = great coding environment.

Ornthoron says...

Microsoft Word

No, seriously, I love emacs. I think I would like vim as well, if I only took the time to learn it one day. I somehow never find the time or motivation. Which is kind of ironic, considering all the time I've used scratching my head over how to do a thing in emacs, or doing it in an unnecessarily complicated way. This illustrates my point:

<embed src="http://www.bemroses.net/images/curves.jpg" height="400" width="600">

That being said, I have never coded php, except tweaking code others have written (Wordpress). For my other coding purposes however (LaTeX, C, Matlab), I use emacs.

dag says...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

^love that chart. And so true about vi, when you know it, you know it. Though I have to admit I only use the basics. The biggest thing I hate about Vim is that it auto-indents on massive paste jobs and tries to format for you. I hate it when editors try and think. To get around it you have to call : set paste

lucky760 says...

>> ^gwiz665:
>> ^lucky760:
vi
[edit]
But when coding on a Windows box I only use Notepad++.

aka a computer?


Wha? Perhaps you haven't heard the latest breaking tech news, but lately there have been rumors that some computers run on things called Linux and Unix instead of Windows.

:-?

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