PHP Editors for Windows

[Jim Carlock]

Any php editors recommended for Windows systems?

What about a compiled help metafile (.chm)? I'm looking
over http://www.php.net right at the moment through the
list of editors. Looking for something with syntax highlights,
intellisense (if available).

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[Oliver Grätz]

Jim Carlock schrieb:

Any php editors recommended for Windows systems?

For everything over 50 line: PHPeclipse.

OLLi

[Toby Inkster]

Jim Carlock wrote:

Looking for something with syntax highlights

SciTE?

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[Mchong]

Zend Studio is best.

[massimo61]

Jim Carlock wrote:

Any php editors recommended for Windows systems?

What about a compiled help metafile (.chm)? I'm looking
over http://www.php.net right at the moment through the
list of editors. Looking for something with syntax highlights,
intellisense (if available).

Komodo, but is'nt free.

Best regards.
MAX

[Jim Carlock]

"Jim Carlock" wrote:

Any php editors recommended for Windows systems?
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS suggested: SciTE?

SciTE...
http://www.scintilla.org, http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/
is very nice. Thanks. I like this one the best.

I compared it to DevPHP from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/devphp

DevPHP need some fixing up. Too much bugginess
involved with it and using the explorer browser really
annoys me. Anyone from DevPHP here? It installs
php5 (because SciTE uses it's install just fine) but it
itself fails to recognize it's own PHP installation. <g>
It definitely needs ALOT of fixing, including the help
file it installs but fails to read. Also, I thought I was
using Explorer to browse some files and when I
selected SAVE AS it brought up a common dialog
box which looks enough like Explorer so I thought
to try double-clicking inside of it to see what occurs.
It saved my source code into that file. The double-
clicking inside of it should be trapped and discarded.
It at least provided me with a compiled help metafile
for PHP so that answered my question about the
help file. Thanks.

There's another product at. I liked SciTE so much
that I didn't bother to much with this one.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpstudiodev/
Oliver suggested using PHPeclipse...
http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net/

Java and .Net are NOT installed on the system in
question so PHPeclipse gets ruled out. :-) Thanks
for the suggestion Oliver.

Troy suggested:

PHP Designer 2005 provides too much and it's quite an
attactive product (http://www.mpsoftware.dk). The web-
based Explorer stuff in it doesn't appeal to me. And the

intellisense/autocomplete/finelyfinish

isn't finely finished. Very nice product that carries some
potential. Thanks Troy.

I like the SciTE the best. That's my 2 cents.

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[M. Trausch]

Jim Carlock wrote:

Oliver suggested using PHPeclipse...
http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net/

Java and .Net are NOT installed on the system in
question so PHPeclipse gets ruled out. :-) Thanks
for the suggestion Oliver.

IMHO, it's well worth it. I've switched to it from Notepad++, and I've
tried a fairly large number of other editors for it. It catches parse
errors and other things that you normally wouldn't find until run-time,
and let's you see what you're working on as you're working on it. It
shows you "quick diffs", which highlight the left area before the line
to show you things that you've changed/added/deleted since the last
save, and so much more. Also, you can place the cursor on a PHP
function and get context-help from the PHP Manual. It doesn't support
all of the functionality of PHP 5 from a syntax standpoint, for example,
it doesn't yet seem to work totally with PHP 5 classes and the like, but
otherwise, it is wonderful. I'd recommend it highly.

- Mike

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[J-Vladimir]

If you're looking for an IDE with full php5 support, I'd recommend
NuSphere PHPED, www.nusphere.com
Below is direct link to their trial version:
http://shop.nusphere.com/customer/do...0evl-Win32.exe
I love this IDE since I start using it in 1999.

JV