On Wednesday 24 January 2007 7:48 pm, John Meyer wrote:
> Jochem Maas wrote:
> > Curt Zirzow wrote:
> >> On 1/20/07, Vinicius C Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> hi everyone!
> >>>
> >>> i'd like to ask something maybe commonly asked here. what is the most
> >>> powerful php editor?
> >>
> >> So now we have a 4 day thread of discussing nothing but, this is what i
> >> use....
> >
> > let see if we can make it a full week :-P
>
> If we want to argue about this, let's set a few guidelines as to what
> "powerful" means.  I propose these guidelines
>
> 1. Syntax highlighting

Yes.

> 2. Web server integration

Irrelevant, except insofar as it supports a real-time debugger.

> 3. Link checking
> 4. Browser check in the top three (Mozilla-IE-Opera)

These are both HTML editor features, not PHP editor features.  

For me, the big three features I want in a PHP dev environment are:

- Syntax highlighting.
- Context-sensitive code assistance.  I hate having to remember the order of 
parameters, especially when they're irregular.
- Real-time debugger.  The only one I've found that works for me so far is 
Zend's.  I cannot overstate how useful a real-time debugger is for tracking 
down bugs in complex applications.  


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