Re: PHP IDE

Aron Pilhofer wrote:

After spending two frustrating hours tracking down a bug yesterday - only to discover it was a misplaced quote mark..... I've had it. I am looking for suggestions out there for a good IDE for PHP development, preferably one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I tried PHP4EE studio, but it is buggy as hell and kept crashing on me. Thanks in advance. If you work in a primarily *nix environment like me, there are quite a few options. I have used JEdit, Nedit, and, most recently, Vim. I really prefer Vim over all the others because of its extremely flexible configuration, plus it uses standard vi commands and features. I actually use the GUI version, gvim, and the syntax highlighting, paren/brace matching, auto indent, etc., are all superb.

There are other options as well for *nix systems. Of course there's (X)Emacs, plus some commercial suites like Crisp and Visual SlickEdit, but I've found that the commercial products like Crisp and VS just aren't really cut out for PHP coding. There's also a nice webpage with links to some other PHP editors for a variety of platforms. Take a look at http://www.itworks.demon.co.uk/phpeditors.htm. I have found some nice editors from this list. Regards, /bsh/ -- /---------------------------------------------=[ BILLY S HALSEY ]=--\ | Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ESP Solaris SW | | "All opinions and technical advice offered in this message are my | | own and not necessarily endorsed by my employer." | \--=[ bsh-php@sun.com ]=--------------------------------------------/