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What I Use to Write PHP

Posted by hts | November 19, 2007 .

You may (or you may not) agree with me, but one very important factor when writing code (in PHP, or by extenso, in any other programming language), that influences your productivity is the tool you use to do this. Mashable proposed a nice, long list of IDEs (Integrated Development Environments), but there is (at least) one program that is not there: Programmer’s Notepad
I personally and strongly believe that this piece of software rightfully deserves it’s place on their list. I’ve been using it for more than an year now and I really don’t think that there is something better. Some key advantages that I think are worthy of being mentioned are: first of all, it is free and lightweight (low memory footprint, small loading times); then, I find the syntax highlighting feature to fit like I glove to my visual “taste” (I haven’t changed any settings related to colours, just the font - which is now “Anonymous”… it appeals me more than Arial) - for PHP, but also for HTML and CSS.

The folding feature is great when viewing 100’s of lines of code. Also, you have the project manager, which is really useful when working on a large project, involving lots of files.

Anyway, as a final remark about it: it is not bloated with (usually) useless features. This IDE has everything I need to develop web applications in PHP.

However, even though it is an extraordinary program, it’s not really widely used. Maybe you should give it a try - then let me know if it has “charmed” you, like it did to me.

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