RE: [PHP] looking for a PHP editor

Personally, my team and I use HomeSite 4.5.x from Allaire. It is PHP aware and there are extensions you can add to allow PHP expression building. I have used it for a coupe of years and fills my text building personality as well as the graphical GUI ones with DW and browsing. If you use DreamWeaver (DW), it usually comes as a freebie. --Dave -----Original Message----- From: Egan [mailto:egan@sevenkings.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:54 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] looking for a PHP editor On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:50:40 -0400, Miles Thompson <milesthompson@sprint.ca> wrote: > For a Windows environment I'll endorse jeremy's recommendation > of Ultraedit -- my hammer of choice. Am I the only one using HoTMetal Pro 6.0 on Windows? Its PHP support has a very annoying bug when it encounters embedded HTML output contained within PHP standard tags, but using PHP long tags fixes that problem. Long tags help in other ways too, because they make HoTMetaL format your PHP script text as-is, letting you control indenting of the PHP text the way you want. And as long as you're not trying to embed HTML output inside your PHP tags, you can use PHP short tags in contexts where they make the most sense, like printing the contents of a single variable: VALUE="<?=$cardtype?>" Notice the omission of the "print" command. That's a neat little trick I learned from Matt Zandstra's book. Very helpful for quick output of a single variable. One thing I can no longer live without, is HoTMetaL's integrated FTP support. It's so good, the FTP site becomes part of your desktop. I can open a remote FTP file for some quick changes, without even storing it locally on my hard drive. And then just as quickly, save it back to the FTP site with the touch of one toolbar button. OTOH, after an editing session where I make extensive changes to the local copy of my project, its FTP file synchronization is everything I could ask for. And did I mention its excellent support for different HTML views like tags-on, WYSIWYG, and raw source? Did I mention its excellent table design and manipulation facilities? Did I mention its project management? Did I mention ... Yes I could go on and on. You get a screwdriver and some wrenches with your hammer. It's available at Amazon, discounted to about $70. Egan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net