So, what do php coders use to make their website?

[chimp1950]

I wanna know once I've learned html, should I make the website with a WYSIWYG editor or can I make it with something like Notepad? Please reply what you do.

[chigley]

Zend Studio is good on *nix or Mac, but sucks on Windows (waaaay to slow)

Notepad++ is a good option

Notepad is OK, but lacks good features (and only lets you undo once)

Stay away from Dreamweaver

[chronister]

Stay away from Dreamweaver

 

I would not say stay away from Dreamweaver, but more use it carefully.

 

Dreamweaver is not bad as long as your not relying on it writing your php code for you. I use dreamweaver in code view most of the time. I like it because it manages all the sites I work on (over 5-7 now) with FTP access, easily manages CSS and I use it in developer view for HTML stuff. It is a lot simpler pound out tables and forms in Dreamweaver rather than typing it out by hand.

 

ZEND Studio is pretty awesome, but a little to complicated for my taste (I will admit that I have not used it for very long), Notepad++ is OK but I am not a real big fan of it. I will stick to my dreamweaver as that is what I am most comfortable with and it has great features.

 

I again stress, don't have it write your php code for you as it becomes WAYYYY bloated and far too complicated to accomplish a fairly simple task.

 

Nate

[chigley]

Dreamweaver is good for its site managing tools, I used to use it (and occasionally do) but never ever relied on its "code snippets" as they are completely deprecated. I'll take back what I say, use it if you like - but don't let it code for you!

[matto]

Zend Studio all the way - has CVS integration built in. Would have to agree, keep well clear of Dreamweaver - tends to do bad things to your code....but hey, that's my opinion....

 

[chigley]

Zend Studio isn't great on Windows though, I've heard it rules on OSX though

[matto]

Works great for me on $Windows, Mac & Linux

[Wildbug]

I like Crimson Editor.  http://www.crimsoneditor.com/  Syntax highlighting, autoindent for PHP, Perl, HTML, SQL, and many more.

[chigley]

I like Crimson Editor.  http://www.crimsoneditor.com/  Syntax highlighting, autoindent for PHP, Perl, HTML, SQL, and many more.

 

Another one to add to my collection of editors to try

[per1os]

Read my sig.

 

Stay far far away from dreamweaver, horrible program.

[.Stealth]

I use PHP Designer 2007

 

ace program, supports scripting languages from HTML, CSS through to C#

[Silverado_NL]

Editors as dreamweaver might be easy to use, but will get you nowhere on REAL programming.

I personally use Jedit. Downloadable at http://www.jedit.org/

its a Programming Text Editor written in Java.

It supports realtime syntax recognition for PHP MySQL CSS and many many more.

Meaning the text your typing will change color as you write it. (customizable by user)

(standard example's are variables are shown in blue and SQL things are show in green etc etc.)

Jedit also support multiple file opened and viewed at once.

for example you could open 2 pages at once, each in a sepperate section on the screen at the same time.

you can open and view as much files simultaneously as you want ( Or your moniter will hold).

here is an example

 

 

it also has loads of usefull plugins that are free to download.

hope this helps:)

 

 

greetingz Silverado

 

[JaredLinwood]

Dreamweaver in Code View mode, I got use to the PHP highlight color scheme so I never changed,

[game2002]

Just use TextPad. It's excellent. You can add all the code highlighting syntaxes you want.

it has macros, bookmark, etc..

[graham23s]

Notepad 2 is pretty good, colour coded and can do multiple undo's

 

Graham

[Caesar]

I would agree, Dreamweaver sucks royal monkey nuts. You will develop bad copding habits and it does little to show you what real/clean PHP should look like.

 

I use UltraEdit (A text editor with syntax highlighting...does not generate code like l4m0rz DW) but there's a number of decent ones out there.

[chocopi]

Well i used to and on occasion use notepad as it is simple, but i have recently upgraded to notepad++, as it justs helps pick up small mistakes that i have missed.

 

I personally am not a fan of WYSIWYG as I find they mess up code bad and i like mine neat, but thats my opinion.