[fromthecloud]

How do you write your PHP code?

Do you use an IDE or a PHP-specific editor? Or do you simply use a text editor?

Are there any PHP IDE's or editors out for Mac?

[philzilla]

BBEdit all the way, baby

[fromthecloud]

Originally posted by philzilla:
BBEdit all the way, baby

That's what I use.

I'm just curious...I've seen some IDE's out for Linux and Windows, but nothing for Mac.

Is there anything out there?

[mrwalker]

I use a combination of SubEthaEdit, Transmit and the online PHP manual

-mrwalker

[ameat]

i believe zend makes a copy of their ide for osx...last time i checked, it was java based

[clam2000]

The PHP I code is mostly hosted on linux boxes, so for the inital coding I use either Dreamweaver or SimpleText, and for tweaking I use nano (terminal based text editor).

--will

[Partisan01]

Originally posted by fromthecloud:
How do you write your PHP code?

Do you use an IDE or a PHP-specific editor? Or do you simply use a text editor?

Are there any PHP IDE's or editors out for Mac?

vi, i write ALL my code in vi, works like a charm, no feature bloat, but has everything i'd need.

Nate

[Love Calm Quiet]

I've just started writing php for mysql, so I'm interested in your answers. So far I've just been using DWMX (even tho I've not been able to get the MX to work yet). Works fair in coloring the PHP code & I can FTP with a keystroke right from DW.

I would however, appreciated knowing the meaning of some of your acronyms?�?:

? "vi"....

? "IDE"...

Thanks

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
I would however, appreciated knowing the meaning of some of your acronyms?�?:

? "vi"....

open terminal, type: man vi

[clam2000]

ide: integrated development environment

--will

[chrisutley]

Originally posted by Partisan01:
vi, i write ALL my code in vi, works like a charm, no feature bloat, but has everything i'd need.

Nate

vi? you are a super nerd!

[philzilla]

Originally posted by chrisutley:
vi? you are a super nerd!

that's the #1 reason most people say they use vi

[samthecat]

just remember, no one uses emacs version six.

Vi lovers home page

[m a d r a]

[gratuitously cartoon-like post to counteract partisan01's nerdiness]

BTW- yes, zend do a PHP IDE, called zend studio. you can download a trial from their site. but i wouldnae bother. it is a java app; feckin ugly, unintuitive windoze like interface and painfully s-l-o-w. imagine if the folks behind limewire made a text-editor and you'll get the picture!

[philzilla]

Originally posted by m a d r a:
imagine if the folks behind limewire made a text-editor and you'll get the picture!

nightmare in treacle!

[Millennium]

Currently I use Pepper. However, I am strongly considering switching, since Pepper seems to be dead for all intents and purposes. Someone purchased the source code from Hekkelman after he quit, but this new buyer has done nothing with it for about a year now.

There are three things I need in a text editor:

1) Syntax highlighting. SubEthaEdit seems to do everything I need in this department, even better than Pepper did (Pepper lacked support for CSS). It looks as though it is probably easier to extend as well, which is always a good plus.

2) Templates. SubEtha doesn't seem to do this yet, I'm afraid. Am I wrong?

3) HTML Tidy integration. Pepper does this better than any other editor I've ever seen -BBEdit has a nice plug-in but the interface is sorely lacking- and SubEtha seems to lack it entirely. Further, at least as far as I can tell, its extensibility doesn't stretch far enough to allow it to be added as a plug-in. Real shame, that.

However, the price for SubEtha is certainly a good one. It's definitely worth trying out.

[redJag]

Originally posted by m a d r a:
[pictures]

What is the killer whale in the fish bowl? MySQL type of app?

[m a d r a]

Originally posted by Millennium:
.......Syntax highlighting. SubEthaEdit seems to do everything I need in this department, even better than Pepper did (Pepper lacked support for CSS). It looks as though it is probably easier to extend as well, which is always a good plus.....

i havenae used subethaedit. just downloaded it for a quick look after seeing it mentioned on here by previous posters. it did look quite nice [esp. if you're working on a collaborative project]. one thing i did notice tho' in my brief "twiddle" was that subethanet disnae seem to be able to handle multiple languages in a single document. i opened a file containing PHP and HTML in subethaedit and it syntax-coloured the PHP fine, but just left the HTML black. bbedit syntax-colours the PHP and the HTML....

bbedit subethaedit

bbedit also syntax colours stylesheets [provided the document name ends in '.css'] and javascript [if the document ends with '.js' so it pretty much takes care of all your hand-coding needs. unfortunately it can't match subethaedit on price.

[m a d r a]

Originally posted by redJag:
What is the killer whale in the fish bowl? MySQL type of app?

it's cocoa mysql. not as full featured [did someone say "nerdy"?] as phpmyadmin, but it's got a nice OSX GUI and does all i need when i'm building and twiddling with databases.

[philzilla]

yeah, i like the way BBEdit handles multiple languages in the same file, as you so yellowishly demonstrated. i've not found another text editor that does that, yet

Originally posted by m a d r a:
bbedit also syntax colours stylesheets [provided the document name ends in '.css'] and javascript [if the document ends with '.js' so it pretty much takes care of all your hand-coding needs.

no file extension required, sir. you just select the language from the pull down menu (third button from the left)

i guess yer havenae noticed that though

[madra]

Originally posted by philzilla:
....... you just select the language from the pull down menu (third button from the left)

i guess yer havenae noticed that though [/B]

goddammit! how dare you get one over on me. that wasnae in the script!

[madmacgames]

On a tight budget, you can use Project Builder found in the Dev tools from Apple (hey it's free and if you know PHP it works wonderful).

[york28]

SubEthaEdit does support multiple languages in a single file, but you need to download some new definition files. You can find some here . This one does PHP and html at the same time.

[m a d r a]

Originally posted by york28:
....SubEthaEdit does support multiple languages in a single file.... This one does PHP and html at the same time....

thanx. i reckon i'll stick with bbedit mysel, but subethaedit with this def file installed looks like a pretty decent 'freebie' alternative.

[DVD Plaza]

I've always used nothing more than a text editor - but have always wanted a really simple editor that supports syntax highlighting.

I then discovered skEdit - supports syntax hilighting and, how awesome is this, CODE HINTING for PHP (ie shows function prototypes as you type, like Visual Basic/etc). And it's only $20!!!

http://www.skti.org/skHTMLdesc.asp

[iJed]

I use Xcode (formerly Project Builder) for all my PHP programming since its what I use for all my other programming stuff. It has nice syntax highlighting now and you can easily create a project file containing all your PHP files, images and whatever else you want.

[cvanston]

I'll add my vote for BBEdit.

Best text editor I've ever used. Couldn't live without it. The "edit in BBEdit" function of FTP apps like Interarchy makes minor site tweaks so easy. That coupled with BBEdit's speed, excellent syntax coloring, and customizability make it tops in my book.

[si_lance]

Originally posted by iJed:
I use Xcode (formerly Project Builder) for all my PHP programming since its what I use for all my other programming stuff. It has nice syntax highlighting now and you can easily create a project file containing all your PHP files, images and whatever else you want.

Does Xcode support ftp editting? I use Editplus when using Windoze, and that little feature is cool. (I'm pretty sure BBEdit also does this.)