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Best php and java editors?

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Gullop

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Ok, so i have started learning php and java and have found out how annoying it is when it won't compile and i have to scan the code for the slightest error.

What editors have you guys come across that have helped you the most?

Thanks.
 
I use Netbeans for Java. Many people favor eclipse (I will make you search for that) over Netbeans. I would not know the advantages from one over the other. I chose Netbeans, since the project I am working on was started in it. I used eclipse before and I was 'happy' with that too.

I cannot recommend a "php development environment" though, sorry.

ps.: What does "best" mean? Least amount of RAM used when running? Most flexible? Least complicated? Most features?
 
drizzt81 said:
ps.: What does "best" mean? Least amount of RAM used when running? Most flexible? Least complicated? Most features?
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Basically we are just starting java and are onto the basics, what made me make this thread was the other day when we wrote some simple code and it wouldn't compile. I spent an hour looking for the error and it turned out it was a typo. So i am hoping i can find a program that could maybe spot something like this, rather than TextPad which is useless for that.

Thanks for the suggestions, ill look into them.

edit: + i'm looking for programs that have some helpful features
 
I am not even sure if there is such thing as a PHP IDE. I use Ultra Edit and a browser.
 
Well, I use PHP Designer for my PHP coding. It's really a cool program. It used to be completely free for the whole thing but now it's split up into a personal version (which is free) and a prof version which right now is only $49 or something like that.

I haven't done any Java coding because I don't really know it but PHP designer has syntax highlighting for Java as well as a bunch of other languages. Go check them out. it's a pretty cool editor.
 
Personally I use a program called EditPlus. It doesn't really matter, though, so long as the program has decent auto-formatting options (mostly regarding tabbing) and good syntax highlighting. I can't even begin to count the number of times syntax highlighting has helped me figure out what's wrong.
 
I use BlueJ for Java. I was using netbeans, but it provided me with many things that I did not need right now. The BlueJ interfacer is simpiler.

For PHP, I just found PSP pad editor. I found it while browsing the PHPfreaks forums. They have a whole subforum dedicated to PHP editors.
 
cburwell said:
I use BlueJ for Java.
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Might be a good place to start, but as soon as you've got a basic grasp of what you're doing, I'd suggest you move on. I'm pretty sure it's only intended as a teaching tool. Aside from that, it seems pretty buggy... More than once I sat there for an hour trying to find the source of some nonsensical compiler error, only to have it disappear as soon as the project was reloaded. Plus the BlueJ input console seems to have a few quirks, so some of my programs using the standard input stream, once I finally got them working in BlueJ, would only work in BlueJ.

Eclipse has my vote (not that I've got much to compare it to). Apparently it can do PHP now too, though I don't know how well.
 
LuminaryJanitor said:
Might be a good place to start, but as soon as you've got a basic grasp of what you're doing, I'd suggest you move on. I'm pretty sure it's only intended as a teaching tool. Aside from that, it seems pretty buggy... More than once I sat there for an hour trying to find the source of some nonsensical compiler error, only to have it disappear as soon as the project was reloaded. Plus the BlueJ input console seems to have a few quirks, so some of my programs using the standard input stream, once I finally got them working in BlueJ, would only work in BlueJ.
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I just use it for my Java class. I have not run into any bugs with it, but so far most of my projects are pretty simple with GUI's. As I said, I used netbeans, and it offered many features. I just do not need any of those features now. To me BlueJ is exactly what I need (an editior with syntax highlighting, with "one click" compiling).
 
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