Re: [PHPLIB] Editor for PHP From: garyb <email protected>
Date: 12/28/99

Chris Manjoine said:
> Does anyone know of a editor that is usable for php? I would like to get a
> bug tester that will help me to edit the code

For editing, any of the following will do:
BBEdit (Macintosh)
VIM (Vi, Improved) - Unix or wherever you can compile it
Emacs - Unix or wherever you can compile it
The closest thing I know of to an editor for Windows (VIM and Emacs both run on Windows but I haven't been there) would be HomeSite, but it sucks, only slightly less than any other Windoze editor I've had to use. It _will_ break your code if you let it. In fact it _will_ break your HTML even without PHP.
DreamWeaver does a lot of neat stuff (Windows & Mac) but I don't think it handles PHP well, at least a year ago it didn't.

Vi and BBEdit both have syntax coloring which is nice. Neither is perfect - BBEdit doesn't have a PHP syntax coloring per se - I used the perl coloring. There's no editor that perfectly handles both code and HTML in my experience. It's a pretty hard job following two syntax definitions plus the switching between them.

If you're looking for a complete development environment a la CodeWarrior, I don't think anyone has done that for PHP. PHP3 has both a syntax-colored code view mode and a live-debug mode that is worth looking at, though I haven't tried it - I don't know if it has trace capability, which would be nice. These two features plus a good editor should provide what you need. I also will set error_reporting(15) [or error_reporting (-1)] at the top of pages during development so I can see all the petty whining about uninitialized variables.
G

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