Free PHP editors?

The_B_Man

im learning PHP for my project this year. im using iis but i need an editor. does anyone know a good one that i can get for free? i was using notepad but its crap for a beginner. thanx.

fatherdougalmag

I use SlickEdit which parses a whole heap of languages. There's Eclipse but you'll probably have to work at it. You might go the extra mile and look for a full blown PHP IDE which will let you edit and debug.

Actually, come to think of it, did you even do a basic Google search? There's tonnes of the damn things. Including this.

Bloody students Ted.

Mutant_Fruit

afaik Emacs will parse PHP and give you nice colours when coding.

Syth

I use Vim for my coding needs. (Well I use Vim for all my needs.) It will do syntax highlighting and indentation and all that. However it has a steep learning curve. But once you start using it, you'll wonder how you lived without it.

Baz_

just downloaded this http://hapedit.free.fr/hapedit.php and I have to say its looking damn good for the first opening, give it a try sure and its completely free.

Random

Context is another program you could google for, or textpad. They have syntax highlighters for php...

Something

I quite like pspad, tis quite a nice editor, loads fast, has some auto completion for html, and quite a few other features. As well as some project management stuff.

eoin5

Html-kit, loads of extensions, just get all the php ones and away you go: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

fragile

If you are using Linux have a look at Bluefish.

jEdit is an excellent editor that is Java based and will run on almost any platform (Windows, Linux, OS X etc.), and it is very extensible with a large selection of plugins.

kenmc

I use JEdit.
but anything will do for PHP - it's only text at the end of the day - you don't have to compile it nor nothin'

nahdoic

It's free for the first 21 days - and is definitely the best. Zend studio. Perhaps if you are just a student you could get a copy of it from someone ... until you can afford to buy it

fragile

nahdoic wrote:

It's free for the first 21 days - and is definitely the best. Zend studio. Perhaps if you are just a student you could get a copy of it from someone ... until you can afford to buy it

197,24 EUR for an editor for a student project :eek: are you insane

I know Zend is so much more than an editor, but for a student who is going to spend a few months on a project it is complete overkill

Trizo

i always use EditPlus 2 for php