Re: most powerful php editor

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 7:48 pm, John Meyer wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: > > Curt Zirzow wrote: > >> On 1/20/07, Vinicius C Silva <vinicrigrupos@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> hi everyone! > >>> > >>> i'd like to ask something maybe commonly asked here. what is the most > >>> powerful php editor? > >> > >> So now we have a 4 day thread of discussing nothing but, this is what i > >> use.... > > > > let see if we can make it a full week :-P > > If we want to argue about this, let's set a few guidelines as to what > "powerful" means. I propose these guidelines > > 1. Syntax highlighting Yes. > 2. Web server integration Irrelevant, except insofar as it supports a real-time debugger. > 3. Link checking > 4. Browser check in the top three (Mozilla-IE-Opera) These are both HTML editor features, not PHP editor features. For me, the big three features I want in a PHP dev environment are: - Syntax highlighting. - Context-sensitive code assistance. I hate having to remember the order of parameters, especially when they're irregular. - Real-time debugger. The only one I've found that works for me so far is Zend's. I cannot overstate how useful a real-time debugger is for tracking down bugs in complex applications. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson