PHP tool - Dreamweaver, FrontPage OR?

[CatPlus]

Hi all:

As a beginner in PHP, I need to identify a development tool to start writing PHP script

Is there a URL which compares the numerous releases in the market with some degree of analysis?

Please help

Thank you
Mickey Shekdar

 

[BitFuzzy]

Good qustion.. but no answer (from me anyway)

I've found that the text editor of choice is usually the best bet.. most 'specific' editors tend to get in the way trying to be too much for too many

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

As a begginner myself I find that a good PHP book,

http://www.php.net

and notepad is all I need to write php code.

Use of those damn WYSIWYG editors is not the way to go. You don't have nearly as much control with them.

Hope this helps!

http://www.spyderix-designz.com

 

[DaRNCaT]

well a heads up, don't DON'T use frontpage- it's asp based for starters (being a microlimp product) and it adds stupid STUPID things into your code.
I use Dreamweaver MX, (you can get a PHP snippet plug in for it) but my programmer swears by Homesite (he hates WYSIWYG stuff)it is good to have an editor that knows what it's doing as it auto indents code for you, and highlights in different colors to make finding stuff easier.
If you go looking I know there are several really good editors- GPL build specificaly for PHP, I'm sure zend would be a good place to start looking for them

http://www.zend.com

Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..