RE: [PHP] PHP-editor connected to FTP?

Chris <mailto:spam@cimmanon.org> on Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:56 PM said: >> HTML-Kit (www.chami.com) will do this. I've been using HTML-Kit for >> almost 2 years and I've never had a problem with a bad save. > I use HTML-Kit as well and feel it is a bloated pile of crap. i'm sorry you've had so much trouble with it! but in the hopes of not scaring off other users i feel it is my duty as an html-kit user to respond. > Tab > handling is broken (if you select "tabs" over "spaces", selected text > will still indent with spaces if you press tab to indent the whole > block of code). It suffers from severe option overload. It lacks > the ability to use secure FTP. It also lacks simple features like > setting a block of selected text to all lowercase without a plugin. 1. i use spaces all the time so this is not a problem for me. 2. i admit it, there are a *ton* of options. most of which i have not even bothered to set. 3. until very recently i have worked exclusively with a local ftp server so a secure connection has not been a concern. 4. i've never wanted to set a block of text to all lowercase so i can't really comment on this one. > The only feature I actually like is the ability to edit files via FTP > so that when I hit save, it uploads the new copy to the server. So > if that's all you really care about in an editor, HTML-Kit will do a > fine job. that pretty much sums it up for me. :) > Also, if you tell it where PHP is found on your local > machine, it will highlight all of the PHP function names. i thought html-kit did this based on the filename extension? i've never pointed html-kit to any php executable (considering it's not even on my local machine) and it recognizes functions fine. are you referring to something else? chris.