hi,

i'm sure there are lost of editors for php files, this is only a suggestion:
http://www.editpadpro.com/editphp.html
it's not free, but you can download a free evaluation copy, just to check it out

good luck!

Hello there!
Don't wanna read previous posts and your question might be already answered... anyway;)

I prefer the NullStudio phpEd. Don't remember the link to download, but I think you may easily find a lot of.
Also a good one is PHP Expert Editor(developer - Ankor). The linkage situation is same as with previos one.
All these are most for editting. (1st one can proceed some scripts, but more dificult are not to be runned).
Advanced scripts can be runned using Server emulation applications such as Apache, Sokkit, ColdFusion etc...
Again, I'm givin' no links...You may assume that I'm lazy to go for searching all these on the Internet...
And you'll be completely right=]

OK, my opinion&advice is here... Good luck in your searches)

This post has been edited by CrazyPensil: Sep 29 2006, 06:14 PM

I used dreamweaver and PhpDesigner for editing php, but then I've found notepad2. It recognizes sintax of many different languages (php, html, javascript, sql, c++ ...) works very, very fast and can work even without installing. If you install decide to install it then notepas2 will replace windows' original notepad.

Actually, what I did when I was looking for a php editor, I just found a bunch and figured out which one had the features I needed, how stable, the license and such.

That's when I found PHP Designer. It's great! If you install PHP on your computer, you can point PHP Designer to it and you can test your scripts from the program as long as they don't pass parameters though the URL or contain SQL, then a local installation of MySQL and Apache will work fine for debugging. The debugging feature is nice! One cool feature is that when you do more advanced stuff, you'll have code in brackets (e.g. { and }) and when you have multiple ones, it gets confusing. PHP Designer will actually highlight the set of brackets you're working in! Can't beat that!



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Use EditPlus 2 it is great editior for editing php, css, ,html and many more.

here is official homepage : editplus

To view and debug php files using an editor you will have to have PHP installed on your computer and since databases are usually used with PHP to make a more dynamic web site and since PHP and MySQL developers worked together to improve their products (which are both free) and you would also need a webserver like Apache , which is also free. A really great editor is PHP Designer 2006 or the newest version is PHP Designer 2007 you can get it HERE

If you really want to save yourself a lot of trouble with installing a webserver like Apache a dbms like MySQL PHP on your own on your local machine to wrtie and test your PHP and MySQL database then do your self a favor and get XAMPP HERE or if you have a Mac you would of course want to have MAMP which you can get right it at this LINK HERE!XAMPP not only installs Apache MySQL and PHP but also Perl and phpMyAdmin and Mercury Mail server and FileZilla FTP server. It is as simple as download the file and then run the install accepting the defaults. Within ten minutes of download you will have a working webserver MySQL database and the latest version of PHP plus the ability to use a software switch to use either PHP 4 or PHP 5 ever since I found XAMPP in 2003 I have been using and upgrading it when more important upgrades became available. Take this from some one who had in the past manually installed Apache PHP and MySQL...it is not worth the headaches of setting all that up when you can just download XAMPP then install it and boom you are done with it, it is truly childs play to install all that you get with XAMPP. TRY it out today.

I like crimpson editor, It colours the php instructions, separate php sintax from html code, and it does advanced search/replace features that i appreciate a lot for many uses, not just php coding.