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dlloyd

dlloyd

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Ok, I know this has been gone over before, I did a site search :) I can't find what I'm looking for though.
I use Dreamweaver MX for my site design, and it is great for WYSIWYG editing. It also has some nice code editing features, but I find it a little clunky for writing code in all the time.
I downloaded all the free editors I could find yesterday (jEdit, Taco HTML Edit, WebCode, Hydra, BBEdit Lite), and a couple shareware ones (WebDesign, PageSpinner).
The thing is that none of them seem to do what I want.
What I need:

Support for
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • XHTML
  • CSS

Features I want
  • Syntax Coloring
  • Line Numbers
  • Auto Indent
  • Auto tag-completion
  • List of appropriate attributes for a tag after I type it.
  • Oh yeah, and free would be nice. If not, well, nothing that's gonna break the bank!

One thing I really didn't like about jEdit is that the interface was very un-Mac.
If anyone knows of a Carbon/Cocoa application that does this stuff, I would be very grateful!
I can't find anything on Versiontracker which does all this, but I might be missing something

Dreamweaver has all of these features, but like I said, doesn't seems to be set up for a hand-coder. If there is nothing else out there that does these things, I guess I can get on with it... :(
 
Try Zend Studio. It is probably the best you can find for PHP coding.

You can find it here:
http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio.php

It isn't free, but you can download an evaluation copy that works for 21 days. At $195, it isn't even cheap...

If you want a free utility, you can try ProjectBuilder. It is included in the Developer Tools that should be included in your Mac OS X package. There is a free PHP framework called phppbx available here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17767

If you can afford Zend Studio, I strongly recommend it. If you can't, phppbx is probably the best free tool IMO.
 
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