OT: PHP

[Atrocities]

Hell between all of you PHP people here, someone should be able to make one hell of a good web based game.

[minipol]

I use editpad lite on win and vim on Linux to edit my php files

[tesco samoa]

currently at work i am learning ingres

[Ruatha]

I use wordpad, but I really miss two things:
What linenumber am I editing (when debugging; Error in Line 252 (puh...))
And block cut/copy/paste.
In my old DOS editor Q-Edit I could select a block of text, say 10 columns and 20 lines in the middle of the page and copy that, in wordpad it automaticly includes the beginning of the lines, not what I want.
I guess I should either;
1. look for a better text editor.
2. Write one of my own. (Which I guess is harder than option 1)


EDIT1:
This looks good:
http://www.winsyntax.com/

[ November 07, 2003, 05:34: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ragnarok]

I'll probably end up using EditPlus2 as soon as I get it downloaded here at work. Currently I'm using Notepad but EditPlus2 is good.

[SpaceBadger]

My favorite text editor is actually an old Version of MS Word that I used to use when I did lots of web-stuff. Big advantage over Wordpad was in the much more powerful search/replace. My current PC came with Word 2000 installed, and for some #$^%$&% stupid reason they have tried to turn the $&^* word-processor into a web-browser - it interprets all HTML and shows you what it would look like in a browser, rather than letting you actually see and edit it as text. (Why on earth would anyone want their word-processor to act like a browser? More MS stupidity, trying to make every program do everything, rather than letting each one do its own thing and do it well! )

So now I have to use Wordpad, at least until I get around to finding an install CD for Word 97, at which time I will uninstall Word 2000 and replace it with the old one. (I also hate all of the autoformatting junk in Word 2000 - what a time-waster, on the very rare occasions that I use it instead of Wordpad I have to keep undoing stuff that the &^$^%#& program goofs up by guessing what I would want rather than just doing what I say. )

Err, umm, how did I get up on this soapbox?

SpaceBadger

[ November 07, 2003, 15:43: Message edited by: SpaceBadger ]

[Ragnarok]

I'm not a big fan of Word. I use it every now and then for certain projects but overall I don't use it if I don't have to.

I'm a big fan of EditPlus2 now though. It's perfect for editing PHP if you ask me, or HTML (unless you have Dreamweaver) and Perl, and C, or C++, or Javascript. It has syntax coloring for all these programming Languages. Which I absolutly love, I need to have my color coding when I code something. So for me EditPlus2 is the way to go for all my PHP needs.

Fyron got me hooked on this program. He's good at doing things like that.

[SpaceBadger]

I hate Word 2000. I've been looking every place I can think of for the install CD for my good old Word 97, but can't find it. Where do you get EditPlus2?

SpaceBadger

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:
(Why on earth would anyone want their word-processor to act like a browser? More MS stupidity, trying to make every program do everything, rather than letting each one do its own thing and do it well! )

I agree that it wasn't implemented very well, but the idea there isn't to make WORD into a browser. It's to allow you to edit the html with a WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet interface. Some people, mainly those without any knowledge of html or interest in learning it, greatly prefer being able to edit web pages in this manner. My biggest problem with using Word to edit html is all the crap code it sticks in there. Meta tags out the wazoo.

I am pretty sure that Word 2000 and later will let you look at the html in text view won't it? That should give you what you want if it does.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:
I hate Word 2000. I've been looking every place I can think of for the install CD for my good old Word 97, but can't find it. Where do you get EditPlus2?

SpaceBadger

http://www.openoffice.org is a good replacement for MS Office. It has a Version of Word, Excel, Power Point and IIRC Word Art (or something like that). It is free, and open source. And a lot smaller than MS Office is to boot. It can open and save all MS file formats, plus dozens more. And the best part? No @&#!*! paper clip to harrass you!

So now I have to use Wordpad, at least until I get around to finding an install CD for Word 97, at which time I will uninstall Word 2000 and replace it with the old one. (I also hate all of the autoformatting junk in Word 2000 - what a time-waster, on the very rare occasions that I use it instead of Wordpad I have to keep undoing stuff that the &^$^%#& program goofs up by guessing what I would want rather than just doing what I say. )

You can actually disable all of that in the settings...

[ November 07, 2003, 17:55: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]