PHP Coding Tools

[TakeIT2]

Hi All

I haven't been at this too long and havn't written any original code yet, but I have been doing my editing of PHP in homesite and have been pleased. I know homesite has had no native support for PHP at this point, just a function plug that replaces the coldfusion functions or merges with them. I had been looking for a spacificly "PHP editor" and every place I looked, recomended a good text editor.

Well one of our neighbors here at POWWeb sent me an email for a free windows based PHP editor. It claims that you can write code and can also preview your pages. This sounds great, and I will give IT a whirl. I was wondering If anybody else has tried IT, or had any good tips?

You can find the app "CodePHP" at http://www.codephp.com/

I cant say I recomend this app yet, but look forward to checking it out. I don't know the folks over there, and would encourage them to chime in over here too ;} The view while editing feature looks promising

Basicly I started this thread to focus just on the editing environment, and hope others will join in with their tips and favorites.

Paul

[sophiespo]

Thanks for posting that link! I downloaded the program and it looks promising - especially the preview while editing feature!! And the colour-coded keywords make it a little easier too (I was using notepad or textpad before).

The only bad thing I can say about it so far is that I tried to press tab (as a programming student, its been hammered into my head that I HAVE to use indentation) it wouldn't indent. But thats not really a huge prob.

sophie