Posted by Rincewind on 10/03/05 18:34

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:53:34 +0100, Marc wrote:

> Rincewind wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 03:25:53 -0700, Will Ferrer wrote:
>>
>>>I am looking to get started using PHP and I am looking for a nice GUI to
>>>use.
>>
>> In order of preference:
>>
>> 1. Zend studio http://www.zend.com/
>> 2. Text Pad http://www.textpad.com/
>> 3. PHP Expert Editor http://www.ankord.com/
>
> TextPad is great, I use it for everything, although I'm not sure it's
> what the OP was looking for.
>
> To be honest, I don't see the point in a GUI for PHP. I understand your
> comparison - I used to like DreamWeaver's suggestions in code view when
> you were editing HTML it was handy to give you the properties and such.
> PHP however, is a lot more flexible, as you would expect, it being
> code and not markup, so I don't see how a GUI could work, there are just
> too many possible combinations for the program to 'suggest'.
>
> I'd say do it properly, buy TextPad, and learn PHP, the you're getting
> into good habits from the start. :)
>
> Marc

I don't think there is a GUI for PHP as such, and I didn't mean the OP to
think there was.

I agree with you about Text Pad, I use it for everything but PHP, and
that's only because Zend has the option to highlight syntax errors, and as
I make a lot of them it saves hours of time trying to find the missing ' or
) in my code.

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