PHP Editor
In your opinion what is the best FREE PHP editor, for a novice? I'm looking for an editor that is feature rich and also helpful. What are the choices of the day?
The best is Netbeans:http://netbeans.org. It isn't just an editor but an IDE with many useful fuinctions you'll learn to appreciate in the future. But as a novice you'll be happy for the efficient syntax error highlighting. When you type code, Netbeans instantly detect errors and highlights them with red symbols. For instance, when you type
echo "
Netbeans notify an error until you don't add
";
so to have
echo "";
This can seems to be annoying, but for a novice this efficiency is a true help. Netbeans notifies when you forget a parenthesis (how often this happens!) and in many other cases.
Furthermore, Netbeans is a great editor for css, javascript, html, xml, java also. It offers a template engine which allow to save time typing code, a project manager and more.
I love it and I strongly suggest to use it to everyone.
If you need a good editor also, but more fast and light, Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ is very powerful. I use it when I don't need IDE specific funcitons.
Cheers
echo "
Netbeans notify an error until you don't add
";
so to have
echo "";
This can seems to be annoying, but for a novice this efficiency is a true help. Netbeans notifies when you forget a parenthesis (how often this happens!) and in many other cases.
Furthermore, Netbeans is a great editor for css, javascript, html, xml, java also. It offers a template engine which allow to save time typing code, a project manager and more.
I love it and I strongly suggest to use it to everyone.
If you need a good editor also, but more fast and light, Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ is very powerful. I use it when I don't need IDE specific funcitons.
Cheers
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We use Eclipse - its version control and plugins are what makes it so useful. When I last used NetBeans is was very good but it was Java only and not PHP back then.
I say - notepad++ is my favorite php-html-javascript editor, see it at -
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
You can get IDE or intergrated editors like netbeans and others, and they do have more features that can be useful for some people on some projects, but these "features" can also "get in the way" and do things that are not needed, or give options you may never use, on other projects. But you probally can't know what is your coding "style" and what editor features you will like, until you try some of the very many free code text editors out there.
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
You can get IDE or intergrated editors like netbeans and others, and they do have more features that can be useful for some people on some projects, but these "features" can also "get in the way" and do things that are not needed, or give options you may never use, on other projects. But you probally can't know what is your coding "style" and what editor features you will like, until you try some of the very many free code text editors out there.
I like netbeans and do all of my development in it. I used to use ZEND before it went to the Eclipse platform. netbeans will do basic editing with syntax checking and highlighting for php, css, js and html. you can also add xdebug to it and step through your code and set breakpoints, etc.
If it free and although it may not be as feature rich as PDT running on Eclipse I have found it to be more responsive / quick than using Eclipse. That may not be the case in general but it was my experience.
www.netbeans.org
If it free and although it may not be as feature rich as PDT running on Eclipse I have found it to be more responsive / quick than using Eclipse. That may not be the case in general but it was my experience.
www.netbeans.org
Give it a try! :)