What editor do you use to code your PHP applications/web pages/etc.? I personally use NotePad, but sometimes Dreamweaver.

Also post what Operating System you are currently using.

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Dreamweaver because I'm used to the syntax highlighting. It works good for commenting /* , //. Dreamweaver dosent have bracket highlighting too so it can be hard to find nested brackets if there are many.


I've treid komodo but it dosent pickup // comments as one line and ends up greying out all below. Abit bulky too for my liking but I've only tired it out on PHP scripts.

BBedit is pretty nice and quick. seems to have good syntax highlighting for php but no support for expanding and collasping brackets.


Operating system is Mac OS X.

This post has been edited by sonesay: Jan 24 2008, 10:57 AM

I'm also using notepad to write code, but when on linux i just use kedit. operating system is both linux on one computer and windows on another. i'm starting to get into linux, but i need some programs on windows so that's why i'm using two computers.

the best editor you can get IMHO is PHPDesigner (Google it) and its free for personal use (which is why i use it)

It has syntax highlighting and copes very well with comments of both kinds. It also has hints when coding eg typing "mysql_connect()" brings up a tooltip above telling you what data it needs (host, username and password) It also autocompletes statements by adding the ending brackets and when you enter a quote (either single or double) it automatically adds the second, closing, quote for you do you dont forget.

It has these functions for many languages including C, CSS, HTML, Python etc.. and also a plain text editing function with no highlighting etc... and the ability to customize the highlighting.

Its perfect in every way really and it also includes a browser (based on IE i suspect) that you can use to view HTML files while creating them, it also works with PHP files providing you have set up a local server and configured the program to work with it.

I use windows XP and this program works fine on this and Vista. Im not sure about Nix systems but check the website. Same goes for Mac

This post has been edited by shadowx: Jan 24 2008, 02:41 PM

i am using windows xp sp2.
and to edit/code php i use php maker software

I am on Windows XP SP2 with XAMPP & use Dreamweaver.

Notepad all the way. Its simple, text editing, and that is all there is to it. One major advantage to using notepad (I've found) my coding skills have definately increased, I understand how things work, much better now. But I'd have to say that the best part is: it does not take 30-seconds to open... if anything it takes less than one second to load....

I do have dreamweaver, but all that I really use it for is spell-checking

I use notepad for all my coding indcluding: html, php, and css.

Also, I am using Windows XP

This post has been edited by KansukeKojima: Jan 24 2008, 03:45 PM

I am using Ms Word as editor. Some times I use note pad and word pad also.Basically even DOS can be used as editor with proper extention to the file name.No problem at all.And I am using windows XP professional.But even dos is ok to code the php language.

I use notpade, but I've heard dreamweaver was supposed to be good and I thought about giving it ago until I heard what Shadowx said.



I think I'm going to give it a try and see if I like it, it really sounds great. I've found the most annoying part of notepad is that it doesn't indent inside brackets (something I'm used to from my C++ compiler) so i'll give that app a try and check it out.