Help with Text Editors

[cooldude832]

I've been doing php for a few years and have advanced my text editors along with it and I believe it is time that I move on to a better text editor, My current one notepad++ is causing all sorts of whitespace errors and doesn't collapse functions very well.  I'm also looking for something that can ftp on save without having to manually ftp every time i edit the file (gets very annoying for tweaking).  Anyone got any ideas?

[pikemsu28]

if you want to fork out the money you can do that with Dreamweaver.

[pocobueno1388]

PSPad works great for me =]

http://pspad.en.softonic.com/

[cooldude832]

if you use dreamweaver you don't deserve to be on this fourmn

[corillo181]

i use dreamweaver it helps my with my errors plus i desing too so when i'm coding i need to make sure tha tmy desing are not having no second effecs.

[pikemsu28]

i use dreamweaver because my company bought macromedia suite for me.

[corillo181]

it's true dreamweavr helps you a lot therefore not letting you learn it correctly, but you can always turn it of.. or delete ever script that is built into dreamweaver

[pikemsu28]

the built in scripts helped me when i first started learning php/mysql but now that i know a little i dont even use the built in features anymore.  i mostly use it just as a text editor and site manager.

[knowNothing]

After a few years of PHP, I've used every editor known to man, and I can say that while all the fancy GUI editors have some interesting functionality, I rarely use them or decide on one single editor because I write/edit code from so many different platforms, that its much easier to just remote/SSH into the server and use Vi or whatever editor that box has available.  I do it from my pda phone, from dreamweaver, from notepad+ftp client, from putty on my mini-usb key.  It all depends on where I am, geographically, and what computers I have access to when I need to write or edit code.

 

Be flexible and dont rely on your favorite editor.

 

This goes for development too.  I sat at a coffee shop for 4 hours once, developing a library for an extranet application, all from my Palm Treo 700.  A lot of people have their one computer at work/home that they do everythign on.  This is fine, but you're not very portable.  What if a client needs you to change some database functionality or change some random php code, and you're in a safeway store 400 miles from home/office.  And it needs to get done 5 minutes ago.  I know most people dont have to deal with that kind of request in that timeframe, no matter where you are, but it just goes to show that it's nice to not have to rely on your one development platform.

 

I think I went waay off track with this. Oh well. Peace out.