I have been using Dreamweaver MX2004 with no problems until tonight. I was playing with a new cms system I may be interested in and ran into a slew of problems because Dreamweaver corrupted a .php file. First time ever for me. I have used DW to edit Moodle, php-nuke, postnuke, and the .php files I create while I learn the programming language.
My question then, is there a free solution to using DM to edit php pages, or a low cost one?
Thanks
Will,
Do you use the older v.6 stable, or the latest developer build (v.8 I believe)?
Does Crimson Editor separate out the functions, methods and properties of a PHP file (like PHPEdit and Eclipse)? If it does, I'll give it a try.
I tried PHPEdit, but it wouldn't group files into projects and didn't have a built-in find in file. The only thing that frustrates me about Eclipse is there is no word wrap.
mike
. (I like PHPEdit too).Is the question "what is a good free or low-cost tool to EDIT PHP pages" or is it "what is a good free or low-cost tool to manage PHP projects"?
Now I haven't done an assessment of the entire tools market, but the PHPEclipse platform shows promise as a full-featured PHP IDE. While admittedly it may be a bit confusing, I find that once you spend time getting to know its many features you that as a aggregate they are very useful to managing the code as the project becomes more complex. The fact that the platform enjoys broad academic and market support is an added bonus. I may be biased only because I am happy using Eclipse as my Java IDE.
Since the parts come from many different vendors it is also a little confusing to get set up though. I've used my notes to partially documented setting up a PHPEclipse Development environment here. This information may be of interest to those wanting to create new Moodle modules. It is probably too much for those wanting just to create a new theme.
Chris
I've been using Eclipse, and so far prefer it to the others.
The one thing that continually irriates me is that I can't seem to find a word-wrap setting. Do you know if I can get the editor to wrap lines?
mike
The built-in text editor for Eclipse doesn't currently support word-wrap. This is a feature is planned to be released in version 2.0. In the meantime you can turn on the horizontal scroll bar by getting under the covers and using SWT.H_SCROLL.
But you may be missing one of the strengths of Eclipse as a framework for tools. If you don't like the built-in tools you can use any editor you want, that don't have to be Eclipse tools. Eclipse tools have greater integration but non-eclipse tools can be effectively used too, within the Eclipse framework or as separate processes. From the context menu you can select to open a file using associated applications configured within the Windows registry (on Windows PCs). You can also configure a file to automatically open with the alternative editor by selecting Workbench > Preferences and then File Associations under Workbench. Associations can be configured via file name (a_special_file.xml") or by extension ("*.doc"). Eclipse will always remember the last editor used for that file.
Chris
i use ConTEXT its one of the best editors beside its free and hightlits soooo many languages , its multilinual too ..
