PHP IDE/Editor

Hi,
I was wondering what everyone is using for their PHP scripting?
Full blown IDE or a text editor?

PSPad
Notepad++
Blue Fish
Context Editor
Eclipse PDT
Geany

All of them are good.

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Originally Posted by smooth48

Hi,
I was wondering what everyone is using for their PHP scripting?
Full blown IDE or a text editor?

I'm about to start learning PHP (my first programming language) and got myself Sublime Text 2 editor. Is this a good choice for PHP?
I did download Aptana Studio (along with several other Eclipse based IDE's) but it seems so confusing...

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Stick with Sublime. you'll never need anything else for any coding language until you work somewhere that requires you to learn theirs.

(Stick is underlined because it doesn't matter which you choose- pick one you like, and forget about editor wars and what other ppl say- just learn one well. Perhaps find one that supports plugins.)

Edit: I like Geany now- but I've liked others in the past.

Adobe Dreamweaver

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Adobe Dreamweaver

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Dreamweaver : $399
The list above : Free/Opensource

Notepad++ does the trick for me.

Really, an IDE is hardly necessary for PHP. Syntax highlighting might be handy, if you like that, but by all means: an advanced editor is merely a katalysator for your [s]programming[/s] scripting speed. It hardly increases quality for that is your task.

I personally use Notepad++ for anything, but that's because I lack a better editor and I am lazy (so should you be when coding).

I use Notepad++ when I'm on Windows, and GEdit (so awesome) when I'm on a Linux box.
Netbeans is a pretty good IDE, and it has its own version of intellisense which can help newer programmers get to grips with a language's api's and libraries :P

no real point in using a big IDE just use notepad or notepad++ the basic stuff usually is the best

I use Notepad++ for any coding I need to do.

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Originally Posted by Darth

no real point in using a big IDE just use notepad or notepad++ the basic stuff usually is the best

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Notepad and Notepad++ are very different. Notepad++ is far from basic.

I use NetBeans, it's an awesome IDE especially for PHP, it indents your code and gives you a list of functions ect which is good!

zend 5.5 (Versions above are shit)
Identing, List of functions AND your OWN functions. ftp git etc

Komodo Edit is a Free Open Source Editor for Perl, Python, Tcl, PHP, Ruby & Javascript is pretty nice, I use it quite a bit

I use geany for everything else, dreamweaver for large scale projects.

It's absolutely essential that you designate the differences, because after 3000+ lines of codes within each of the multiple scripts you start to lose your grip in coding. That's when you realize it needs a software of a higher calibre.

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Originally Posted by getty

I use geany for everything else, dreamweaver for large scale projects.

It's absolutely essential that you designate the differences, because after 3000+ lines of codes within each of the multiple scripts you start to lose your grip in coding. That's when you realize it needs a software of a higher calibre.

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Good coding practices are more powerful than any editor can be. An editor can promote good practices, or make it easier to duplicate bad practices.

In the end, you need to learn how to organize your scripts- you shouldn't rely on a heavy-weight IDE to organize for you.

As long as there's a file manager, map-out of the code in terms of objects/constructors/methods, I can manage the file-system and everything else myself... Sometimes for large-scale development, built-in GIT, SVN or FTP hook-ups are convenient. Any editor with plug-ins works for me, as I sometimes prefer to code my own plug-ins for niche tasks. Emacs is great for that... But Emacs is terrible for beginners, lol.