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Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

David Ramalho — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:11:48 -0000

:D , how's it been so far?

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Oscar Merida — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:01:09 -0000

Fixed - I think I spoke too soon, I was able tos et it vya Prefernces > General > Editors > File Associations

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Oscar Merida — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:51:43 -0000

I'm trying Ecliipse, really making an honest effort to use it. I've run into only one annoyance, so far its been really useful. Our convention at work is that display php files get the file extension .tpl, but I can't find any way to tell phpeclipse to treat those as php files I tried this: http://phpeclipse.net/tiki-... FileExtensions but my tpl files want to be edited by the HTML editory and I can't find a way to tell it not to.

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

David Ramalho — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:34:15 -0000

(WebIt) I tottaly agree, I do like jEdit, UltraEdi and ... well, even VIM ;) , and they are excelent text editors but an IDE has a bit more features, not just text manipulation features, but file managment, code context and all sorts of little helpers that let you get some peace of mind while tackling the dangers and misteries of Coding :D ... didn't know about the Zend Plugin, I'm sure it will never beat PHPEclipse's price tag but ... I'm keeping that on the radar ;)

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Webit — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:43:23 -0000

Yeah, I started using Eclipse IDE with PHP plugins (now the only one and the only good is PHPeclipse) about 18 months ago. Now I can't imaging any other IDE like that. It has everything, is fast, flexible, stable, scalable... it's great! I'm waiting for Zend's Eclipse plugin which should be released soon (I think)...

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Tim Denholm — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:23:11 -0000

Vim. I really only learnt how to use it effectively 12 months ago, but I love it!

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

David Ramalho — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:21:11 -0000

The only problem with TextMate is, of course, that it's MAC OS only ;) but good of you to remember it, maybe one day there's a Windows port (and a Linux one)

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Eric Coleman — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:15:58 -0000

TextMate from http://macromates.com/

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Richard@Home — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:56:42 -0000

I've been using HTML-Kit (www.chami.com) ever since I got into PHP (all the way back in the 'good' 'ol days of PHP3). Once a few PHP plugins are installed its pretty much the only editor I've needed...

I'm downloading eclipse atm though to give it a whirl...

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Oscar Merida — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:17:57 -0000

I'm going to give Eclipse another try on your recommendation. I'm a jedit user at the moment, and its got a pretty useful phpparser plugin for catching errors, there's also a php project plugin but I haven't figured out exactly how its supposed to work either.

I'm also now using subversion for all my projects and one-click commit would be a definite benefit.

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

David Ramalho — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:57:31 -0000

Hummm, I didn't know about UltraEdit Studio, but I'll take a deep look at your review . As I've said, I'm really liking Eclipse, at least on the PHP side of things (haven't tried it for Ruby yet) and, jEdit is always an option, but for ad-hoc file editing, all my server config files are edited with jEdit for instance, but I wouldn't use it over Eclipse for development projects, I really like my editor to be aware of all the files that make up a project :)

Thanks for commenting Nola ;)

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Nola Stowe — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:50:11 -0000

Interesting posts. I installed Eclipse not too long ago, although I was kind of more interested in using it for Ruby. I will try it for PHP. I use UltraEdit right now, the new UltraEdit studio has some nifty features for PHP. I wrote a review about it at CodeSniper.com if you are interested. I have also used JEdit and use that for Ruby right now, its alright, but I may get the wordfile for Ruby and use UE. But I do use it as sort of a notepad replacement.

Review of UE and UE Studio
http://codesnipers.com/?q=n...

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

David Ramalho — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:03:18 -0000

Yeah, I use that at work, it's my fall back thingy (used to be Ultraedit) , I was gonna say that development was apparently halted, but lo and behold 4.3pre3 is out ;) .. good of you to remember jEdit, thanks ;)

Re: Where’s the sun, or, How I Write PHP!

Carlos Rodrigues — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:57:39 -0000

"yeah, notepad works great , very l33t of you ;) "

Well, jEdit (http://jedit.sourceforge.net) is a bit better that notepad, and I use it for all my editing needs (which don't include PHP for now).

I rather keep things simple, although jEdit can be made into a full IDE through the use of its many plugins...