Posted by Steve on 04/10/07 05:56

"DrNoose" <drnoose@Idontthinkso.com> wrote in message
news:461ad9ea$0$1422$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
| Tyno Gendo wrote:
| > DrNoose wrote:
| >> Hi!
| >>
| >> I'm taking a class in web design and we're just starting to learn php.
| >> Is there a good "freeware" php editor out there?
| >>
| >> Thanks!
| >
| > For Windows?
| >
| > PSPad is freeware and has limited code insight (in that you can CTRL-J
| > or CTRL-Space to look at php function directives)
| >
| > www.pspad.com
| >
| > Crimson Editor is another good programmers editor, don't think that has
| > any code insight.
| >
| > www.crimsoneditor.com
| >
| > PHP Developer 2007 is pretty good, free for non-commercial use I
| > believe, although not much to register either.
| >
| > http://www.mpsoftware.dk/
| >
| > I now use PHPEd under Windows, but its expensive for the Professional
| > version which I registered as I PHP all the time, for beginner Standard
| > version would suffice, still quite pricey I think though:
| >
| > http://www.phped.com/
| >
| >
| >
| > To be honest, you're best friend is the PHP Help CHM for Windows, and
| > any good text editor :-)
|
| Hi!
|
| Thanks!
|
| I'm not a very good programmer! LOL! If there is an editor that will
| tell me where my errors are in the PHP code that would be great. I don't
| think notepad can do that can it? Reading the documentation on Crimson,
| it looks like it might do that for me.

good choice! i sacrifice the code-completion/intellisense stuff for one
wonderful feature crimson has that others lack...vertical editing (ctrl+c
.... let's you type, tab, etc. several lines at once). since i'm a freak
about well-formatted code, this is great in helping me quickly write in-line
queries where columns used, criterion, etc. are all aligned.

i just wish the author would publish the source or continue to develop it so
that intellisense/code-completion and folding were part of the ui as well.

if you want to pay for the best, get zend's ide. other than that, crimson
editor is my fav.

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