ZeroHour Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 (edited) Just thought I would put a post out asking what you are all using for PHP editing. I am currently using EditPad Pro and Sublime Text but they are pretty bare bone although nice, tempted to give Eclipse another go though. So what do you use? Edited March 2, 2015 by ZeroHour
ZeroHour Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 (edited) Wow everyone is old school, simpler editor based and not an IDE in sight! I do use nano on console, I couldn't really get into vi. Edited March 2, 2015 by ZeroHour 1
Arreks Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Wow everyone is old school, simpler editor based and not an IDE in sight! I do use nano on console, I couldn't really get into vi. I've never really seen the appeal of an IDE for web development tbh! It's so easy to set up a local web server, have a browser open on one side and a text editor on the other..
LosOjos Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Notepad++ Wow everyone is old school, simpler editor based and not an IDE in sight! I do use nano on console, I couldn't really get into vi. I'm glad I'm not alone on that. I always hear how powerful vi is, but each time I try to use it I just get frustrated at the never ending list of KB shortcuts I'm expected to remember to perform the most basic of tasks.
ZeroHour Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 I've never really seen the appeal of an IDE for web development tbh! It's so easy to set up a local web server, have a browser open on one side and a text editor on the other.. Thats basically what I do now, years ago I used Zend Studio and it had some really nice code completion features but now its just a fork of Eclipse.
chris_uk Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Did any of you know that you can get this for free - https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ and be able to roll it out across your school network? Along with https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ for any rooms that your students do programming in? 1
ZeroHour Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 I'm glad I'm not alone on that. I always hear how powerful vi is, but each time I try to use it I just get frustrated at the never ending list of KB shortcuts I'm expected to remember to perform the most basic of tasks. Every time I went to use it I ended up abandoning it as I would spend more time learning it then actually working.
Boredguy Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 I must be real old school then... I just use notepad (no fancy + after it)
pcstru Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Another sublimetext 3 user here. I'm glad I'm not alone on that. I always hear how powerful vi is, but each time I try to use it I just get frustrated at the never ending list of KB shortcuts I'm expected to remember to perform the most basic of tasks. The big advantage of vi and knowing the native keys is that it is a standard part of every unix and useable on almost any tty type.
sonofsanta Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Notepad++. I used to use plain old Notepad - I did my final year project in it - but the colour highlighting in Notepad++ is life-changing. Makes reading code much, much easier.
localzuk Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Depends what I'm doing. Sometimes Dreamweaver CC, sometimes Notepad++, sometimes vim and sometimes even nano.
LosOjos Posted March 5, 2015 Posted March 5, 2015 Notepad++. I used to use plain old Notepad - I did my final year project in it - but the colour highlighting in Notepad++ is life-changing. Makes reading code much, much easier. Syntax highlighting really is a game changer. Might sound odd to some who have only started coding fairly recently, but way back when IDEs were either prohibitively expensive and/or had a steep learning curve, a lot of us would just write code in Notepad then painstakingly trawl through looking for mistakes when it doesn't work. These days, the thought of editing code without syntax highlighting gives me cold sweats! Add auto-complete/IntelliSense to the mix and I don't think it's ever been easier/lazier to be a coder!
antlear Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 I generally use Brackets Brackets - A modern, open source code editor that understands web design. Notepad and notepad ++ 1
zag Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) I've used Notepad++ with the auto save on window change plugin which is very useful. Sublime text 3 and Brackets (with the dark theme) are also nice. Edited March 9, 2015 by zag
howartp Posted April 23, 2015 Posted April 23, 2015 UltraEdit Bought it years ago before lots of these others came out.
PaulBM Posted April 23, 2015 Posted April 23, 2015 Wow UltraEdit, that's a blast from the past, I bought that too. I can't remember what it looks like now.
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