PHP Editor

hey. Im sick of using MSFP to write php code in. It keeps changing things

Anyway. Is anyone able to suggest a good free php editor? Nothing too advanced, but something that will...work!

Thanks in advance,
Dan.

 

A simple, lightweight and free source code (php and many more) editor with syntax highlighting - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

 

http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php
http://www.pspad.com/

 

Crimson Editor is a good choice. If you want to get really fancy there's a PHP plugin for Eclipse.

 

I use gedit under Linux, it supports auto highlighting for many different languages.

 

Thanks for all those link Ill read more into them all, and then decide from there

 

Here's a list of a bunch to check out:
http://www.php-editors.com/review/

I tried out a bunch (AnyEdit, Programmer's Notepad, PHPEdit), and finally went with PSPad.

 

yea PSPas was the one i was downloading, until my internet connection cut out.

 

I've heard that Crimson is a good editor, but what's so great about it?

 

I use Notepad++

 

Rapid PHP 2006 is pretty useful.

But WinSyntax is free and hard to beat if you can find it via google.

 

i use maguma studio. but see that you can get the free version 1.3.4. RC2 - the newer version is full of nasty bugs...

 

I ended up downloading PSPad, and im really happy with it. I might test a few more when i get spare time, but at the moment, PSPas is what i was looking for

Thanks everyone for the help

 

It's good, but not as good as php designer, php designer comes with all sorts of things that are actually meant for php, for instance you start to write mysql_connect() (or any function, either one native to php, or one you have written or included on the page), and it tells you what to put in the brackets, most of the time you'll never use a feature like that, but the times you do it'll save you ten minutes on php.net trying to find out how it works, you should try it at least.

 

PHPide for Eclipse is good. But Eclipse isn't lightweight and need sometime to master it.
Maybe you don't have the need of it.
Notepad++ is simple editor, and it's work fine.

 

I dunno about good, they are all a little "samey", I spose if you program in several languages all the time then it might be usefull to have syntax highlighting for a-z -hieroglyphs, but if you don't and it's mainly php / sql / html / plan text fles that you edit then it seems to make sense to get somthing designed for exactly that as you'll actualy be able to use all the features that come with it.

Also, php designer can debug php with php.exe installed or a webserver......

I'm not gonna shut up untill you say you have tried it.....

 

Mac - TextWrangler
PC - Notepad++

Personally, I like TextWrangler more, but I'm pretty sure that has to do with me working with it day after day and adapting to it.

 

must admit rather like notepad++ especially the block contract/expand can help on a large code set or class

 

I use eclipse with php plug-in,

it's free (as in speech)

 

Jee that does sound good. Quite often do i find myself searching php.net for a functions i rarely ever use. For now im using PSPad, but i definitly will give that one a shot when i get more spare time. Thanks for that