I primarily code in Dreamweaver 8. Two of my favorite features that were added from MX are as follows: 1. Code folding, basically you can collapse blocks of code. If you have to work with other peoples code, matching braces and code folding is an awesome way of just seeing the logical flow of the code, and hide all the details. DW 8 code folding is great because you can select any amount of code and collapse it. The bummer about dreamweaver is that it doesn't detect functions and add a collapse handle to it like Zend Studio, or have the default to automatically collapse functions when you open a page like Zend Studio. 2. The built in FTP client. You can set it so that when you save it auto uploads the file to the site. They also put the upload/download process into a separate process. This means that you can download or upload a bunch of files and still continue to work on files. One thing that bugs me is that the dialogue box always comes up and you have to click around or minimize it to hide it, why isn't there an option to just keep it hidden on upload? I used Zend Studio for a month, in hopes that I would be able to figure out how to install the whole IDE with server on my machine. I wanted to use the debugging features in it, but I have never been able to get all the pieces installed correctly AND gotten a work flow down where I could use the debugger effectively. ZS has code folding too, but just for functions. Someone else mentioned support for phpDoc, this is an awesome time saver if you want to provide clear documentation in phpdoc format. One big bummer on ZS was that it didn't have a built in FTP client. A work around is to work directly off the server. I tried Magumas Workbench product for a little bit, but it seemed very mickey mouse compared to ZS and DW. But I'm sure it's really a good product and I just didn't' give it a chance. I have a soft spot for CoffeeCup editor as it was my first editor beyond notepad. I still download each update and install it, though I never use it anymore .... Mark -----Original Message----- From: Jeff McKeon [mailto:jmckeon@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:15 AM To: php Subject: What software do you use for writing PHP? Hey all, Forever now I've been using Frontpage for all my web work including php. I'm sure there's better software out there that is more suited to writing and editing PHP pages. What do you all use? Thanks, Jeff -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
