PhpED Review
I’ve been in search of a good PHP editor for almost 3 years. In the end I always go back to using Notepad++ or good old Homesite. I really think I prefer C# to PHP overall because of Visual Studio. I tried PhpED a while back and although it looked promising back then it wasn’t enough to compel me use full time or spend any money on. I decided recently to give it another try.
Likes:
- Right click a include-> Got To File. Brings up the function calls, class definition files etc… This worked 75% of the time. When it didn’t work I wasn’t told why.
- Speed, so far this thing is fast which is great, a couple hang ups but nothing major.
- File Explorer is really fast.
- Recognizes mono fonts differently, gives you a separate list of these. A nice extra touch.
- Highlight parts of variable is smart enough to automatically highlight the rest of the variable.
- Intellisense picks up on dynamic variables.
- Code Templates, they have the standard templates built in but also a way for you to add your own as needed.
Dislikes:
- Save a New file, always wants me to put in a project, I prefer to just save it to a file location.
- Project. Maybe I haven’t spent enough time with this program and maybe saving things via projects improves "Go to File", but I prefer to edit files via file explorer.
Overall
This is the best PHP ide I’ve tried by far. It doesn’t seem clunky like Zend Studio. The list price is $299.00 and well worth the investment for you PHP developers.
Written by Tim on December 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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