Zane

Mine are in my signature

Whoa, gotta check this out.

I don't even want to think about what that would look like. *Trying not to think*

I was introduced to vi(m) a few years ago when I took Linux Admin and Linux Advanced Admin at my community college. Like every other *nix head the teacher was completely bonkers over it and preached to us all that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. But he made a horrible impression of it to us when he actually got around to showing us. Although, we weren't using the GUI version (if there is one) it was the CLI based version. The one in which the only thing I can remember is that in order to exit the program I had to type q and s and number sign and exclamation mark, etc, etc.. more unexplained commands. I'm sure it's a great editor but I didn't learn a damned thing in those classes.. other than what an rpm was.. and yum, etc. Oh. and how to install it with apt-get/install (assuming that was installed). Off Topic

Personally, I like anything from regular Notepad to Zend Studio. I haven't been able to try Eclipse yet but I'm eager to since they've integrated the PHP libraries into it.. much like Dreamweaver and Zend Studio. That key feature is what sells me on an editor. That fact that the editor can tell me which function I'm about to type and which parameters that I NEED is awesome. I can't stand having to go back and forth from the editor to the manual. Especially when I'm working with those functions I don't normally use. What I really want to use is an editor with File Management capabilties, PHP function recognition, Regex Search and Replace and FTP access, then I believe I'd be a happy camper/coder. Too bad that editor has to be Dreamweaver. Perhaps there is another one out there that I don't know about?

I put a bitwise operator thread in the code repository a long while back. Pretty informative. Although it isn't a tutorial. Here it is http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,113143.15.html

I'd like to see a tutorial on using formatted strings and their functions' differences Such as: # printf() # sscanf() # fscanf() # vsprintf() But mostly how to correctly use the type specifiers.

So far, my favorite editor has been Dreamweaver Although it's the only one I've really used.....a lot and I can't get enough of the RegEx find and replace feature.  I don't kow what I'd do without it Anyone of these editors have this feature...I'd like to try something else.  Dreamweaver's annoying to install, even though it's just Next next next but it seems like it installs way too much and takes too long for me to motivate myself to install it again after reformatting which I've done. Can I get this feature from eclipse