I was searching around for something to unrelaed to this, but what I found was this pretty sweet freeware app called PHP Designer, an IDE to code your PHP, XML, CSS, JS, SQL, etc. files in. It’s pretty surprisingly full-featured for a freeware app (free for both private and commercial use!): multipl language support, built in FTP support, a project manager, snippets, built-in debugger, class browser, TODO manager and more. It’s not a WYSIWYG editor, but it does have button toolbars for adding your code. This is pretty much what I feel like SEPY would be with multi-language support.
The one thing that stops me from giving this two thumbs way up (besides the lack of ActionScript support)…and this is a big one for me…is that lack of custom syntax coloring support. Oddly enough, you can change the editor’s background color…but not the language syntax coloring. After doing some searching around in the product’s support forums, I found that it looks like this may be possible, but now without getting dirty with the app’s config files, something I really don’t even want to mess with.
But if you are ok with the default syntax coloring of the app, and you’re interested in trying an app that offeres many of the features of Dreamweaver (and some DW doesn’t offer), then I suggest you give this one a try.
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PHP Designer - multi-language freeware IDE
- September 21st, 2005
- 1:53 am