does anyone know a good php ide? dont need anything fancy, just an editor with code insight, the basic stuff. used maguma studio, but its pretty buggy and i get an "error in maguma_studio.exe" every 5 seconds if i open my classes.php (~15.000 lines code), so its impossible to use now. now im with php code pro, but it has some interface problems. sometimes i cant select anything, or selecting text dosnt works. if you reach a linebreak in your code with arrow right key it just continues on this line, instead of skipping to the next line - very annoing. any alternatives?
I prefer Zend.Its help section is so rich that u can learn so many things from it.Its the total php.net in its help area instantl,you just need to press the F1 button.
HTML Edit, and Dreamweaver are also good, recently i'm using Notepad++ and it is also nice... All i prefer is Notepad++ & HTML Edit because both are freeware.
Zend Studio is the best even though i never tried it lol I basically just use Dreamweaver, Notepad, and cpanel code editor for my PHP work.
1- NotePad++ 2- TextPad Those 2 are the BEST simple and yet feature rich Editor (IDE) 1- Eclipse Best editor/compiler package (IDE + Compiler)
I use Notepad++ which has some really nice features but am looking to move to Eclipse PDT for php but Notepad++ has a smaller footprint on this machine which makes starting up a lot faster for me at this stage. I think for large projects Eclipse PDT works great.
Zend studio is the best. Though Notpad++ also performs good. Zend studio can catch code errors while writing code (dynamically).
I'll give one more vote for Zend Studio if you're a Windows user. My preference on a Mac is either Textmate (macromates.com) or Coda (panic.com/coda).