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I believe he was referring to this rather hard to understand post.

Pretty random thoughts in that post also. 😛

I fell off the komodo edit wagon last week. After the update to the open source version the virtual project couldn’t connect to the server, on start i had to give the passwords for the files that where on a server. An editor should make your life easier not harder.

So i moved on to notepad++ and i’m liking it. I miss the code hints for the php functions but it’s not that big a deal. I had some issues with the quicktext plugin and it still bothers me the snippets can only be used in the scope of the file extension so you have to add html snippets to the php section to make them work. But notepad++ is fast and very configurable. It’s almost vim 😉

I use Vim exclusively.

A year or more back I used ZDE for a while.  It was great, but it would have been better with Vim-style commands.  Eventually I quit using it because it required me to use the mouse too much 😉

I use Eclipse with the PDT plugin for normal work and Notepad++ for the quick jobs.

What would you guys recommend for someone who codes and designs (bearing in mind I’m a Windows user)? For design and PHP work I like the autocomplete functionality of Dreamweaver, but would prefer something a lot more lightweight.

What would you guys recommend for someone who codes and designs (bearing in mind I’m a Windows user)? For design and PHP work I like the autocomplete functionality of Dreamweaver, but would prefer something a lot more lightweight.

If you seperate your code and design you can easily use one of the PHP IDE’s out on the market and still use Dreamweaver if you want to design your webpages.

As CI gently pushes you to seperating code from design you can use an IDE to edit you controllers/libraries/other CI stuff and use Dreamweaver for your views.

Spockz, I often still use Dreamweaver, and its a darn fine editor, among the best on the market in my opinion.  In code-view, it rivals nearly anything else available (I own textmate, coda, use aptana).  If you are comfortable in DW, my advice would be to stick with it.

I second that, I use textmate on my mac at home, but at work I use Dreamweaver in code view. I have yet to find right mix of FTP/find & replace/site management elsewhere. Its got its bad reputation by the type of people who rely on the WYSIWYG and use ‘extensions’, but if you take it as an editor, its pretty hard to beat IMO.

My only gripes are the bulkiness of it, and the total lack of SVN integration. (there is an extension but its less than useless)

I cry everytime this post goes through a full page of posts and (g)vim isn’t mentioned :(

edit: i just noticed Gordaen mentioned it..way to go man.. *highfive*

PHPed BEST EDITOR FOR PHP!!!

http:www.nusphere.com

Did someone say editors  :coolsmile:

Vim most of the time. Sometimes kate and/or gedit when working in pair with a coworker. Notepad++ when forced to work on windows. Funny thing is that i’ve tried to switch to something with a GUI but every time I come back to good old vim.

+1 emacs

Spockz, I often still use Dreamweaver, and its a darn fine editor, among the best on the market in my opinion.  In code-view, it rivals nearly anything else available (I own textmate, coda, use aptana).  If you are comfortable in DW, my advice would be to stick with it.

I agree with you when it comes to dreamweaver as an editor.  However too many people have been taught to design with the templating feature which I consider to be a curse on humanity.

I use Dreamweaver combined with PHPED from Nusphere http://www.nusphere.com/ and eclipse.  PHPED is my favorite editor/debugger for controller and model development as well as project management.  I like the postgresql support in eclipse so if I am working with pgsql I go the lazy route for FTS functions.  Dreamweaver is my view tool.  I still love the css support in dreamweaver (not a crutch I swear).