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I have a long history programming (18 years) .. I started on an old Apple IIe that was given to me 😊 went through my Amiga years using the ced editor and then unix and emacs ..

Now I mostly use windows, and currently my editor of choice is editplus, it is very light weight and has syntax highlighting, which is a must for me ..

I’d love a lightweight editor that has some kind of versioning support..  I’ve tried so many and the biggest problem usually is that they are so bulky that it’s annoying to use, eclipse is a good example .. people always suggest eclipse, but going from editplus or notepad to something like eclipse was a nightmare .. tons of features, sure .. but most of which I don’t use or could care less about..

My question is, what is your favorite PHP editor, and why? ... and do you have any suggestions for a lightweight editor that has versioning ability? (I’m downloading Zeus now to test out)

Hi,

Maybe PHP Designer 2008 its for you, its a lightweight but powerfull editor, with SVN integration

Hi,

Maybe PHP Designer 2008 its for you, its a lightweight but powerfull editor, with SVN integration

Thanks! not heard of this one, and I’m in the process of nuking Zeus ... knew right away it wasn’t for me.

I’ll check PHP Designer out.

Hi,

Maybe PHP Designer 2008 its for you, its a lightweight but powerfull editor, with SVN integration

PHP Designer is complete WIN ... I like it

Thanks! .. not a resource hog and it seems to have everything I need, code hints are a bonus! 😊

Another vote for PHP Designer.  Love it.  Setting up the code completions and such are nice for it as well. 

basepath then Control+J inserts

<?php if ( ! defined(‘BASEPATH’)) exit (‘No direct script access allowed’);

controller then Control + J creates a skeleton controller, including base commenting.  I have the same thing for models, creating functions such as index, _remap, etc.  Auto completes alot of the code and inserts default commenting.  Live syntax checking and such is nice as well

Another vote for PHP Designer.  Love it.  Setting up the code completions and such are nice for it as well. 

basepath then Control+J inserts

<?php if ( ! defined(‘BASEPATH’)) exit (‘No direct script access allowed’);

controller then Control + J creates a skeleton controller, including base commenting.  I have the same thing for models, creating functions such as index, _remap, etc.  Auto completes alot of the code and inserts default commenting.  Live syntax checking and such is nice as well

Are these things you’ve set up yourself? .. I need to learn this thing, so far I’m loving it

Another vote for PHP Designer.  Love it.  Setting up the code completions and such are nice for it as well. 

basepath then Control+J inserts

<?php if ( ! defined(‘BASEPATH’)) exit (‘No direct script access allowed’);

controller then Control + J creates a skeleton controller, including base commenting.  I have the same thing for models, creating functions such as index, _remap, etc.  Auto completes alot of the code and inserts default commenting.  Live syntax checking and such is nice as well

Nice! I just got that set up, the auto complete templates are great!

Heck yeah they, they will save a lot of time setting up files and such.  I spent sooo much time setting up the controller and adding the functions and commenting everything.  Now its a few keystrokes and I will have the skeleton of it set up, just need to fill in a few gaps

also checkout E-Texteditor, its a windows clone of Textmate app of choice for a lot of mac developers.  It even uses their snippets and add-ons.

...started on an old Apple IIe that was given to me 😊 ...

Since you started with an Apple, maybe it’s time for you to come back!

I use Coda on Mac, and its been nothing short of fantastic!

Espresso, from Mac Rabbit is a nice solution

...started on an old Apple IIe that was given to me 😊 ...

Since you started with an Apple, maybe it’s time for you to come back!

I use Coda on Mac, and its been nothing short of fantastic!

I’ve used Coda, unless I just didnt use it long enough.. I wasn’t impressed.  Not saying it was bad.. just didn’t really catch my attention.  Liked PhpDesigner a LOT more.

I don’t care which text editor I use as long as it has core hinting, since PHP can never stick to a standard in argument order. Right now that happens to be Dreamweaver stripped of everything but code highlighting and that. I’m being pushed to use Aptana which I may, simply because it also has code sense which can make working with a large code base a cinch. 

I absolutely love OSX for development though, there’s such good FTP integration with Transmit that it can work with any editor and a save on the editor means auto uploading.

I have tried Aptana Studio as well.  Atpana seemed to be really heavy.  It locked up when trying to create new files. Dreamweaver is ok, nothing worth writing home about. Notepad++ is decent, I used it for quite a while.  Not a big fan of Eclipse or Netbeans.  Coda was ok, but as mentioned above, it didn’t thoroughly impress me.  Neither did TextEdit.  Call me a fan boy.. I’m sticking with Phpdesigner.

By the way, there are several editors (not just on OSX) that a save is an auto upload.

To each their own, what FTP client are you using out of interest? I use Transmit (it’s Panic, they also made Coda) and I absolutely love it and I think all the mac developers (all but one 😛) have a license.