-----Original Message----- From: Vinicius C Silva [mailto:vinicrigrupos@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 21 January 2007 02:54 To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: most powerful php editor hi everyone! i'd like to ask something maybe commonly asked here. what is the most powerful php editor? ================================= There've been lots of good replies to this, and I figured I'll add my 2c I spent several months trying out many editors and IDE's on the Windows platform about 3 years ago - all the usual suspects, most have been mentioned in other replies - and settled on Nusphere's PHPEd (an IDE rather than an editor). Every year when it comes time to renew my license (which I had to do 2 weeks ago) I look at what else is available and new, try out the latest versions of some of the candidates that made it to my short list, and then renew my license anyway because it's worth every cent and because for me there's nothing that matches it. There are lots of good editors and a few good IDE's, but every one I tried had some or other niggle that put me off: buggy software, slow performance, missing or shallow functionality, bitty integration, etc. Nusphere's PHPEd was the 2nd most expensive (at the time) but it hit the sweet spot and I've never regretted buying it. A bonus was finding that the response from the support forum was good, and updates are regular and stable and meaningful. A real bonus was finding that the most recent license renewal is now valid for 3 years instead of 1 year. So I'll only be looking at the competition again in 3 years time - unlike Stut I hope this question is asked at least once a year because I'd like to hear what's new. For me the analogy goes something like this: if you type the occasional letter or note then Wordpad is perfectly adequate, but if your livelihood is churning out professional well-formatted heavy-weight documents then it pays you to invest in a top-class word processor and supporting tools. The same goes for an IDE. Arno -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
