[NCLUG] Looking for a better, but simple IDE (or just editor)

[Eddie Kovsky]

On Feb 28, 2017 8:48 PM, "Bob Proulx" <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> Hi Grant,
>
> Grant Johnson wrote:
> > I am working on a new project, a simple web services framework designed
> > around JSON, and with built in security.   The primary language is PHP.
> > All I really want is something to clean up my indentation, and maybe do
> > a little syntax highlighting.   Any suggestions?   I would like a GUI
> > since I will be working on several files at once, but I plan to use
> > command line for all of my check ins, testing, etc.
>
> This isn't a great suggestion because I haven't found a php mode that
> I like but what I do when I am editing PHP is set perl-mode.  Since
> PHP is close enough to perl the indention of it works acceptably well.
> You might try something like that as a workaround.  Both vim and emacs
> have a pretty good perl mode.  Vim might even have a good php mode.  I
> haven't found an acceptable Emacs php mode yet.
>
> Bob
>


I just did a quick test of Vim's built in PHP mode. It all seems to work
well. If you already know Vim it would be easy to reformat a PHP buffer.

Eddie