PHP editor

cweiske · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 454 Location: Leipzig/Germany

Hello readers,

I'd like to know what editor/IDE you are using for PHP-Gtk2 development.
I personally use Kate, the KDE text editor. I know of some people using vim, and others with Zend Studio. Are you aware of some good, open source php editors? Perhaps with code completion and such little things?

puzzler · Site Admin Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Germany

zend rules, but if you install it with gnope on windows, it messes up the whole installation!

i am a big zend fan but that is on windows. if it comes to team development, it has a great integration with the CVS and it supports OSX!

just my 2 pennies...

ralf

beidlerj · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Oregon, USA

I have been using the Crimson Editor, as recommended in the PHPGtk2 blog on writingup.com.

Once they get PHP5/PHP-Gtk2 support added in, I might use Roadsend's PHP Compiler as an editor. I will definitely use it for the compiling functionality! Very Happy

Trey · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 5

ya, I'm a big fan of crimson editor for windows on linux i usually use pica

cohort · Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 47

A couple I use occasionally:

Windows:
Hapedit: http://hapedit.free.fr/
Dev-PHP: http://devphp.sourceforge.net/
SciTE: http://www.scintilla.org/

Linux:
Bluefish: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
Jed: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/

Cross platform:
Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/

Bluefish and Dev-PHP are very similar in form and function to one another. Both do code completion, have class browsers, and will close your html/xml tags for you. Dev-PHP also understands PHP-GTK 1, and can run your apps as a window instead of expecting html output if you choose.

Hapedit is closed-source freeware, and it offers something the others don't -- when you start typing a known function, it'll pop up the function's prototype as a tooltip so you can see what you need to pass it.

SciTE only offers syntax highlighting and folding, as far as I can tell.

What I use at a given time depends on what I want to accomplish, and, obviously, what machine I'm on...

Mikey · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 10

TextPad for everything!

http://www.textpad.com/

Mikey · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 10

syn · Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 46 Location: Hamburg

jedit....

Navarr · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 8 Location: King, NC, USA

Im not much for fancy stuff, so I only have a couple of programs I use for this:

EditPlus 2
Notepad
(Command Prompt) edit
(Linux Command Line) nano

codestorm · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 4 Location: Australia

I use Eclipse with the PHPEclipse plugin, it's fantastic as I can have it on every workstation I use (Windows, OSX, Linux w/ Gnome) and have it work exactly the same.

stefan · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Germany

I for myself use proton.

it's no "high-tech"-editor, but the one i'm confident with.

beidlerj · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Oregon, USA

What are the free online editors for Mac OS X? I'd like something simple, similar to Crimson Editor, but for Mac. Then I could edit while at work, without having to transfer files around between machines or bother with Edit/Save/FTP, etc.

Bmci · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

Use ZDE for web based PHP development, but have discovered a lightweight IDE in Geany

http://geany.uvena.de/

Works on both Linux and Windows. Well worth a look.

Set the path of your php-gtk binary within "Includes & Arguments" and you can launch your app. directly from the program.

pieaholicx · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

I personally like Tulip. Oddly enough, it was built with PHP GTK.

It has built-in CVS support, tabbed windows, project management, and suggested auto-complete. All in all very nice.

cohort · Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 47