Journal jawtheshark's Journal: Ask the friendly journallers: A PHP editor 25

Journal by jawtheshark on Wednesday July 12, 2006 @04:53PM

About two weeks ago I started a bit of PHP, mainly because my father in laws website needs to be redone.... And if I say that, it's worse that jawtheshark.net which hasn't been updated since 1999 (based on 1996 tech) and looks that way.

His hosting offers PHP so I'm going to take advantage of it and I'm brushing up my CSS skills. (Fuck, why is vertical alignment such a bitch in CSS!) The main thing I'm going to use PHP for is multi-linguality: I'll detect the browsers language preference and then display a page in either English, German of French (or Luxembourgish if some unfortunate fucker is going to translate it). The user can of course change the preferred language and I'll store it in session. All this is in place, but because of my (probably-non-PHP-like) programming traditions I end up with so many files.

Thing is: I'm on Windows for the moment. I used BlueFish on *nix and loved it. NVu is too wysiwig for me. So, I'm using the probably worst interface there is: Amaya. It's nice if you have two or three pages open at the same time. What do you guys use? Preferred in order: open source, freeware and last (but not preferred at all) payware. (Especially, because I'm doing this for free)

Ask the friendly journallers: A PHP editor

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Load All Comments

Search 25 Comments Log In/Create an Account

Comments Filter:

Vim is the one true editor (Score:2)

by RevMike ( 632002 ) writes:

http://www.vim.org/ [vim.org]
- It doesn't even need to be said (Score:1)
  
  by eglamkowski ( 631706 ) writes:
  
  But I will:
  
  emacs
  - Re:It doesn't even need to be said (Score:1)
    
    by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
    
    Both of you: I was thinking of something a bit more web-enabled. I'm more a VI adept... I used emacs at college, but forgot most of it. VI is my daily use for editing Unix config files.
  - Re:It doesn't even need to be said (Score:2)
    
    by loucura! ( 247834 ) writes:
    
    Has anyone ported vi to that OS yet?
    - Re:It doesn't even need to be said (Score:1)
      
      by eglamkowski ( 631706 ) writes:
      
      actually yes, there is a vi mode in emacs...
      
      http://billharlan.com/pub/emacs/ [billharlan.com]
- Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)
  
  by gmhowell ( 26755 ) writes:
  
  But only for those with only two fingers. If you actually have a full set, try emacs.
  
  On the mac, I like smultron.
  - Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)
    
    by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
    
    Damnit... I just want a solution for the OS of the Devil and nobody helps me... I have no Mac and I won't buy one until revision 2 or 3... I got burned by the logic board failure of my iBook. No PC ever did such a thing to me.
    - Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)
      
      by gmhowell ( 26755 ) writes:
      
      Oh, so you never had one of those motherboards with the randomly exploding capacitors? Fun stuff. Ranks up there with the bogus MTH on the Intel boards.
      - Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)
        
        by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
        
        No, actually never. I did have an "exploding" monitor (it made shotgun like sounds) once though, but it was at least 10 years old. (And worked just fine in that period)
- Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)
  
  by arb ( 452787 ) writes:
  
  Do they still include EDLIN with Windows? That'd definitely be the way to go.
  - Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)
    
    by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
    
    You're not helping arb.... I used an editor on OS/2 that I loved (and it existed for DOS, I just do not remember how it was called). It was excellent for C/C++ coding
    - Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)
      
      by arb ( 452787 ) writes:
      
      Well, on Winders I use Visual Studio 2005 (te Express Editions are free) but I don't think it has syntax highlighting for php. On the Mac I use Taco HTML Edit, which seems kinda cool - it does syntax highlighting and has some nice commands to pprettify your code, but little else. But it gets the jorb done for me and it is free.
Re: (Score:1)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:

Comment removed based on user account deletion
- Re:jedit... (Score:1)
  
  by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
  
  Kormoc, at least your info is useful... What I can't say about the others... :-(
- Re:jedit... (Score:1)
  
  by Com2Kid ( 142006 ) writes:
  
  I'll second this, JEdit rocks. You have to know what plugins to get and stuff, but once that is all done (and searching through plugins is fun any ways. :) it is a great program.
  
  Download add-on PHP modes, the built in CSS and PHP editing modes both are rather lousy and out of date.
Eclipse + PHPEclipse (Score:1)

by llamalicious ( 448215 ) writes:

Eclipse (eclipse.org) with the PHPEclipse plugin (phpeclipse.net)

Haven't had a problem thus far, and its a real bonus using the SVN plugins for SCM directly in your projects.

I also use Eclipse for my java/JSP/Struts/Hiber projects as well as ColdFusion.
- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
  
  Comment removed based on user account deletion
- Re:Eclipse + PHPEclipse (Score:2)
  
  by blazin ( 119416 ) writes:
  
  Mr. TheShark,
  
  I would concur. Eclipse with the PHPEclipse plugin is pretty dang decent for free. It will integrate with CVS or subversion for source control (highly recommended). It does code completion and some other cool stuff. My only real annoyance is how it handles quotes and automatically doubles up on them without taking into account the context of where they are being entered. If you delete the second, it deletes the first as well unless you first type over the second, meaning it is saving me no
  - Re:Eclipse + PHPEclipse (Score:1)
    
    by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
    
    Thanks to both of you... I'll definately look into Eclipse + PHP plugins. After all, I used Eclipse in my former job a lot....
Crimson Editor, UltraEdit-32 (Score:1)

by leoPetr ( 926753 ) writes:

Free: Crimson Editor [crimsoneditor.com]

Pay: UltraEdit-32 [ultraedit.com] - Best Windows text editor I've ever used. It's industrial strength -- doesn't choke on multi-gigabyte logfiles -- speedy, and flexible. It has syntax highlighting, bracket matching, auto-indentation, and all the other obligatory features. I couldn't recommend it more.
- Re:Crimson Editor, UltraEdit-32 (Score:1)
  
  by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
  
  I know UltraEdit. I've used it at different jobs and it absolutely rawks :-D My dad also has a copy on his laptop, but the license is from his work.
Dreamweaver (Score:1)

by Pirogoeth ( 662083 ) * writes:

It's a pay solution, but I usually use Dreamweaver which I got from my old job. Since it does the job, I haven't bothere to check out any free solutions.

It's probably overkill for what I need, but the WYSIWYG tools are nice to get the meat of the HTML in place, and the editor has code highlighting and completion and the FTP will automagically upload dependent files such as graphics, stylesheets or linked .js files.

There's some functionality to link form controls to MySQL databases, but I prefer to do that b
- Re:Dreamweaver (Score:1)
  
  by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
  
  I have Dreamweaver lying around somewhere. My sister needed it for her courses a few years ago. Of course it's a pirated version and I'd rather not use a pirated version when I can stay legal. Dreamweaver is definately overkill for what I need ;-)
Webdev.. (Score:1)

by andr0meda ( 167375 ) writes:

MacroMedia's DreamWeaver & UltraEdit.

My homepage(s) are all made with it.

Features ftp profile uploads, source control, syntax parsing and gives browser version bug warnings with CSS and html.. very stable wysiwyg. I'd say language selection is the least of my worries. Fetch the contents from a database with some php. What is more troublesome is the browser version crap, for which you probably need to redo the css. My website runs with 2 css'es, one for IE and one for FF.

I'm sure you're gonna hit me w
- Re:Webdev.. (Score:1)
  
  by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
  
  I'm sure you're gonna hit me with chosing DreamWeaver,
  No, absolutely not. I understand your choice, I just don't want to shell out money for it and so I prefer to seek out a free alternative. That's all..
  My website runs with 2 css'es, one for IE and one for FF.
  I know, I have already been studying it... ;-) I've also been looking at Zen-Garden and several other sites (including slashdot... go figure) in order to get my CSS right. I'll allow minor visual difference tough, if by doing so, I manag

There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.

Journal jawtheshark's Journal: Ask the friendly journallers: A PHP editor 25

Ask the friendly journallers: A PHP editor More Login

Ask the friendly journallers: A PHP editor

Vim is the one true editor (Score:2)

It doesn't even need to be said (Score:1)

Re:It doesn't even need to be said (Score:1)

Re:It doesn't even need to be said (Score:2)

Re:It doesn't even need to be said (Score:1)

Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)

Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)

Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)

Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)

Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)

Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)

Re:Vim is the one true editor (Score:1)

Re: (Score:1)

Re:jedit... (Score:1)

Re:jedit... (Score:1)

Eclipse + PHPEclipse (Score:1)

Re: (Score:1)

Re:Eclipse + PHPEclipse (Score:2)

Re:Eclipse + PHPEclipse (Score:1)

Crimson Editor, UltraEdit-32 (Score:1)

Re:Crimson Editor, UltraEdit-32 (Score:1)

Dreamweaver (Score:1)

Re:Dreamweaver (Score:1)

Webdev.. (Score:1)

Re:Webdev.. (Score:1)

Slashdot Top Deals

Slashdot