Recommendations for PHP programmers editor

paddyrg

Used correctly a good IDE like Visual Studio work a strongly typed language can be a total godsend. Yes, a learning curve, but in a good way. That said, php is a weakly typed scripting language generally working in stateless systems, and in any case is extremely forgiving, so an IDE isn't playing to core strengths.

John_Gray

Mr_Toad wrote: »

Before you know it we'll be reminiscing about CICS and JCL too

You will remember the story about the infamous IBM junior systems programmer who thought he could optimise the 4-byte no-op program IEFBR14 in a new update to OS/MVT 18 or so, whose sole code was

SR R15,R15
BR R14

by removing the first instruction, which sets the return code to zero. The return code could then have any value, most likely non-zero, and this caused chaos to all batch jobs!

It is highly likely that the programmer was "let go"...

kwikbreaks

Mr_Toad wrote: »

to see if I can find my old Bachman diagrams for my first major IDMS database.

We maybe spoke on the phone then. I was in Cullinet tech support from ~ 1985 and then CA after they were bought out til 1995. Cullinet was the best company I ever worked for and CA the worst. After that I did a year contracting with Cogito making their IDMS stuff work on VM and VSE.

UncleZen

Komodo edit works well, ive been using it for years

kwikbreaks

Thanks for all the suggestions. All seem to be competent editors but none have the powerful command line and prefix commands of Kedit which are what has kept me using it for years.

I'll keep all these in mind when kedit finally stops working entirely but since uninstalling the malwarebytes runtime stuff it hasn't crashed again. Maybe a coincidence maybe not.

I reckon modern editors may well have lots of fancy syntax checking and aids but they are missing a trick which the developers of CMS came up with all those years ago. You'd need to know how to use it to understand why I love it I guess.

I did find some open source projects based on Kedit but not would work properly for me.