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Ive been using E-text editor along with sFTPDrive for about two months now and it works really good for me. The only thing that bugs me with E-Text is that when you hit ctrl-z, it unfolds every parts of the code that were folded! Bummer…

Eclipse with a bunch of plugins at work. As MPC said; it can be difficult to setup and get working, but I’ve found that it works really well once it’s setup and you know your way round the interface.

At home I use TextMate. Tried Coda, but it just doesn’t quite cut it for me.

As MPC said; it can be difficult to setup and get working, but I’ve found that it works really well once it’s setup and you know your way round the interface.

I want stuff to work really well straight out the box 😉

Netbeans.  Though it can be slow at times.  It is a lot like Eclipse but the interface feels a lot cleaner.

easyeclipse.org is a handly way to get eclipse working out of the box
simple pick what you want to do with eclipse and it has a version that you just unzip and go

TextMate w/ MAMP for local testing and Transmit for FTP.  Fantastic; TextMate was one of those programs on Macs that I thought was yet another over-rated thing Apple users had that I didn’t when I was a Windows user.  After the switch I understood.

On Windows I used GVim.

This question keeps coming back and the answers are always the bunch of IDEs/editors everybody knows maybe there should be a sticky with download links for the usual suspects.

Does anyone dare to say he uses Visual studio 😊

I am using JEdit for my everyday coding. It is simple, you can add plugins, UTF support anm more…

easyeclipse.org is a handly way to get eclipse working out of the box
simple pick what you want to do with eclipse and it has a version that you just unzip and go

I agree with tonanbarbarian, the community for easyeclipse have done an excellent job at making things, well easy. It’s excellent if you have cross platform requirment, and you can even load the Aptana plugin if you need an end to end Ajax environment, which includes their new and free, open source Ajax server.

PHP Expert Editor

http://www.ankord.com/

I just installed a demo of PHPdesigner (http://mpsoftware.dk/) and I must say it looks very good. Coincidentally they use CI as an example in their screencasts, so that’s a big plus! 😉

*cough*vim*cough*

I’ve been using Bluefish Editor lately. It is extremely powerful, fast and lightweight. Great choice for an old PC or a minimalist fan.

Right, now I don’t know about other editors but I was just using PHPed and wanted to use the form helper to output a checkbox. Now I didn’t know the function details so was going to have to go to the user guide but thought I knew ‘form_checkbox(’ so would type that.

What did PHPed then do? It showed me the function details with intellisense. This is probably the best functionality I have ever seen in an IDE. It doesn’t work with things like ‘$this->validation->....’ but for all helper files it does.

So what ever phpdoc tags you give to the function it can show you these details.

This is such a great time saver already.

none of you guys thinks it’s a hassle to have to keep reaching for the mouse?