The Bottom Line
Pros
- Great HTML/PHP/XML/CSS Support
- Add-ons include integrated FTP client for edit on-the-fly
- Configurable Automatic Backups while editing
- Great debugging for PHP designers
- Code browser view, code snippet storage in sidebar...the list goes on and on
Cons
- Code folding is missing in the 2.x version, but is there in 3.0
- Tech support is lacking, but the product is rock solid, so support is rarely needed
Description
- Price Paid: $51-$100
- Type of Web Editor: Text
- Operating System: Windows
Guide Review - PHPEdit version 2.x - Web Editing Software Customer Review
Customer Review
I've been a web designer for a number of years with about 5 years in heavy PHP web development. Having tried many of the editors listed in the review here as well as a few that were not listed, I felt that the absence of Waterproof's PHPEdit was a gross oversight which needed to be remedied.
I've been using PHPEdit since version 1 on and off...since the release of version 2.12 I've never looked back. This product is robust, inexpensive and supports not only (X)HTML, PHP, CSS but JS, INI, SQL, XML and XSLT syntax highlighting.
The editor is amazingly configurable, allowing the end-user to determine colors, indents, right-margin width and a slew of other nifty UI tweaks. Add to this the robust features and extensibility through add-ons and plug-ins and I can't imagine being more productive with any other editor.
The most valuable of these, to me, is PHPEditFTP, which allows me to configure ftp credentials for a site and edit files in a buffer which is uploaded to the server on my clicking 'file/save'. I configure PHPEdit to create a .bak file each time I save over an existing filename; these increment, so when I've completed a design, it's a simple matter of moving (for posterity) all my *.bak.* files to a /backup folder and we're clean and ready for final publication.
As stated above, the tech support is a bit lacking...but the product is so solid that its rarely needed.
YMMV, but for my money, PHPEdit is the editor of choice.
