PHP editors? What do you use?

I used araenae up until about 12 months ago when I got dreamweaver, then was very impressed by some of the features of DW (mostly for html though). But recently, I've discovered PHPDesigner 2005. I'm converted. This program is excellent!! Whilst it lacks some of the features of DW, it also has many other features not found in DW.


"The development environment in PHP Designer 2005 combines many powerful features such as customizable syntax schemes for PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Perl, C#, JavaScript, VB, Java and SQL (Ingres, Interbase, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase and Standard SQL), a class/include browser, test and debug your scripts with the PHP interpreter, integration of the PHP manual, parameter hint, auto indent of brackets, automatic close brackets, access to common code/script libraries all combined in this one unique program.

PHP Designer 2005 also includes 'extra' tools like time saving features as a FTP manager, project manager, file manager, ToDo manager, code templates, snippet support, export possibility to LaTex, HTML and RTF, Google Search and a lot more…"

http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php

Plus, it's free. I like it, I am yet to fault it in any major way.


So anyway, what does everyone else use?[/url]

I've been using Dreamweaver for quite some time now, but I've just had a look at PHPDesigner 2005 and it does seem quite appealing. I'll let you know how I get on.

So have you had a chance to try it yet Karl? Do you like it?

I meant, try it generally, I've got my last exam today and should be able to PHP a bit over the next few days so.... gimme a chance man!

hehe - sorry, getting ahead of myself there...

Ok yeah, it's quite awesome. Some of the autocomplete features are pretty good, as well as the fact that you can modify all of them. There's also some very nice basic code templates, so you want a for loop, hit a button and it's in. Nice.

I'm still finding features and working with it, so if there's some other cool stuff I'll mention it here.

I've also added a right-click context menu to PHP files so that you can right-click a PHP file and select 'Edit with PHP Designer'.

To do that, Head to:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\php_auto_file \shell\"
or create it if need be. Then add the keys: "Edit with PHP Designer\Command".

Then modify the key in 'Command' to point to your PHP Designer executable:

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"C:\Program Files\PHP Designer 2005\phpDesignerPrg.exe" %1

and voila! Very handy.