Learn more about the book at
http://www.friendsofed.com/.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a mature open source code editor and avowed Notepad replacement
available for the Windows platform. Translated into 41 languages, Notepad++ offers
a wide array of convenient features one would expect of any capable IDE, including
the ability to bookmark specific lines of a document for easy reference; syntax, brace,
and indentation highlighting; powerful search facilities; macro recording for tedious
tasks such as inserting templated comments; and much more.
PHP-specific support is fairly slim, with much of the convenience coming from the
general features. However, rudimentary support for auto-completion of function
names is offered, which will cut down on some typing, although you??™re still left to
your own devices regarding remembering parameter names and ordering.
Notepad++ is only available for the Windows platform and is released under the GNU
GPL. Learn more about it and download it at http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/.
PDT (PHP Development Tools)
The PDT project (http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/) is currently seeing quite a bit of
momentum. Backed by leading PHP products and services provider Zend Technologies
Ltd. (http://www.zend.com/), and built on top of the open source Eclipse platform
(http://www.eclipse.org/), a wildly popular extensible framework used for building
development tools, PDT is the likely front-runner to become the de facto PHP IDE for
hobbyists and professionals alike.
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