What editor do you use for php? (Page 3 of 5)

Notepad 2

The only things I really need in a text editor is syntax highlighting, line numbering, and Unix tabs.

Amen

That's the editor I was going to recommend. It has customisable syntax files, which reminds me to look for the sql ones again.

I used textpad almost exclusively for coding outside of VB6 which I also used when I worked in IT.

back when computers were run off of tape and card stacks, when rooms filled with "computers" had less computing power than your typical automatically flushing toilet, people had keyboards that didnt have things like capital letters (complete alphabets) shift or tab keys.  this was back when std out was a printer, or one of these new TV things called a "monitor" and all you had to look at was text, std IO only had enough memory to buffer 80 characters per line and folks used to have to set their margins using special keystrokes which some refer to as unix tabs.

believe it or not there are people from 80 years ago who learned how to program their punch card stack using this type of a word processor, and are way to mentally challenged to learn what this "graphical user interface" thing is all about.  these are folks who run the original BSD unix operating system on their brand new 8088 and think that people who use this new wannabe unix "linux" or "M$" as they term it, operating system, is are bunch of pansies.  they are much too hard core to use an editor concieved or written in the last 20 years and require "unix tabs" so that they can set their margins the same way they've been doing it for the past 50 years.

unix tabs are like short cut keys to set margins.  I predate the 8088.  my father has been a programmer since before I was born.  It was always fun when I was younger to go to his office and see those univac computers that filled enormous rooms with the big desk sized terminal.

I just noticed a drawback of Eclipse ... removing a comment start/end in a large PHP-file will make it take along paus ... not that great ...

nopes, the only one ...

does it has autocompletion on variablenames and such?  (I use other programs for editing other stuff than PHP)

I spend most of my day in some form of visual studio (edit: actually I do spend some time in front of an ssh terminal in vi, but thats not a whole lot).  I've done development in vi and would have to find a tall building to jump off of if I ever had to go back to that as my primary editor.

IMO codegen / refactoring  of eclipse is beyond compare.  same goes for visual studio 2005.

while I certainly could code w/ a plain text editor, its a big waste of time and money (money they'd pay me to hand code everything).

If I have to type more than 2 keystrokes for function, types, namespaces, variables or anything else, I get cranky.  if I had to do a normal text editor, I'd guarentee nothing would be more than 3 letters long.

I don't need auto-complete, I need Dreamweaver's tooltips for functions. As my memory sucks
For the rest... syntax highlighting and decent indentation (not like notepad) I need too... that's about it

really odd that you say that.  wednesday I was trying to diagnose a problem we were having at work.  we have a query that takes about 5 hours to run, returns some 3-400 thousand records that are sent via xml (for each record) 200 records at a time to a solr search engine.  well, when the update completed, instead of having the complete set of data it would have about 200 less records than it should have.  so to find the problem, I logged every record sent to the search engine to a file.  that file ended up in the realm of about 12 gig.  I physically could not open it in any other editor.  I could view it w/ head / tail and more, but anything else bombed.  oddly enough, it loaded right up (seconds) into visual studio and I was able to scroll up and down the file as if it were 12k...  so I'm perplexed as to how anything smaller than a 12 gig log file would take an editor so long to load.

as for the time it takes for loading autocompletion, that again has me wondering.

my typical week consists of working on SOLR (my least favorite part of the job.  it runs on linux, and I use vi to update its java code base as the server doesnt have X11 installed so I cant use a GUI editor), an update windows service that post data to that server, which is written in .NET. and use eclipse for other random things we do.  not a week goes by that I'm not using one of these different editors, and given the consistency in working w/ the different variety of editors, I can get a lot more done in eclipse and visual studio than anyone could in vi, simply because so much of the code is generated with the editor, if its not generated, its typed out for me as I code w/ the intellisense / code completion.

anyone who'd prefer vi over visual studio or eclipse either 1. cant afford good development software, 2. cant afford a decent computer made in the last 5 years 3. has a lot of time to kill, 4. still programs in cobol, 5. is out of a job, or 6. is locked away in a mental institution and does programming for therapy.

sounds like somethings not configured right.  if you're getting 3 blue screens a week, anything could seem like it takes forever to load, and might seem unstable.

I dont do any php professionally (the idiots I work with thing C# is the end all of programming languages and would rather develop web apps in that bloated crappy web technology than a fast clean php) but I like zend studio at home.  then again I have a super computer at home so there isnt anything on the market that could slow this thing down (even swing or SWT).