Posted by David Haynes on 01/03/06 11:55

windandwaves wrote:
> Hi Folk
>
> Right now, I am using notepad2 to edit my PHP files. Do you have any
> recommendations for any php editors I should purchase instead? I dont mind
> spending some money for a good product.
>
> I also have visual studio and I hear that there is an extension for VS for
> php. Does anyone have any experience with this?
>
> TIA
>
> Nicolaas
>
>
There are a range of products/programs based upon what you really want
from your editor.

At the high end are the IDEs. These include:
Zend, enginsite editor for PHP, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Rapid PHP,
Eclipse (using a third-party plugin) and others.

Next we have syntax highlighting editors. These include:
vim, jedit, ultra-edit and others.

Finally, just the straight editors:
vi, emacs, wordpad, notepad, edit

Personally, I use Zend in my work because it supports the subversion
revision control software and I have a reasonable amount of memory on my
system (Zend uses Java which tends to love to eat memory, Eclipse uses
Java as well.) There are some usability issues I have (e.g.
auto-completion getting in the way, automatic maximizing of windows I
have closed) but they are not enough of a bother to make me move to
another editor.

-david-

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