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This is pretty much what BBCode tutorial would cover with the small addition that contents of tags should be passed to highlight_string() function

Here you go: highlight_string

Ok... so I messed up quotes with braces {} and PHP code with JS code. And to make it more elusive, it doesn't happen everytime...

I got this with quotes in NB 6.8. I can swear to Rasmus it wasn't working this way in 6.7 and below.

Intellisense is actually Microsoft's trademarked technology AFAIK, so you won't find it anywhere except MS IDEs. Anyway, arguments you present are like advice to use '' instead of "" for strings, because they're a bit faster. It's not going to make your script execute noticeably faster though, because most time is spend elsewhere. Same with IDE. What good is instant file opening, when I need to find missing ; or } or) now and then AFTER I have saved the file and reloaded it in browser? In NB you have these (and other) errors highlighted the instant you make them. That's where time is saved.

Did you ever calculate if you earn more time not having this 0.5-1s lag on opening files than you loose by not having features like code hinting, instant syntax error finding, built-in VC tools etc.. ?

I've yet to see a reason why would I want to use vim (other than being able to say I use it, just like all other cool kids do). It seems like quite a different approach than we're accustomed to see in IDEs... Ok.. downloaded, installed, now browsing the wiki

I wonder how much truth is there in the story I've read somewhere of a guy, who created a working JavaScript IDE in Excel

NetBeans FTW

Yeah... you confused us as a little at first... glad we could eventually sort it out If you're looking for a full fledged PHP IDE, I recommend NetBeans

PFMaBiSmAd gave you link to instructions. However Notepad++ doesn't do this as good as Dreamweaver and I'm afraid you will have to point your browser manually to location of your file, as it is more convenient. 'launch in Firefox' and 'launch in IE' options in Notepad++ are designed for HTML files, not for PHP. Notepad++ is not an IDE (although it comes pretty close).

However it will open a new tab on each run. Personally I find refreshing Firefox directly more convenient

You point your browser to http://localhost (or use CLI to run the script)

Notepad++ is a text editor... you DO NOT run php in it.

sha256 is 256 bits... - hence: 32 bytes long - expressed as hex: 64 characters long md5 is 128 bits.. - hence: 16 bytes long - expressed as hex: 32 characters long sha256 is twice as long as md5 any way you cut it. It's an understandable mistake though, it's hard to remember the length of all of these hashes. Yeah... I screwed my math big time... Not only I confused MD5 with SHA1 (which outputs 20 byte long hashes), but then I confused bytes with hexadecimal digits for SHA256