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Originally Posted by Demon Dave
I'm trying to teach myself PHP with the aid of a book, but I'm finding it a little tricky having to just use notepad.
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As a half way house, get a decent text editor with syntax highlighting, etc. I personally use Crimson Editor (
http://www.crimsoneditor.com) even though there's nothing that special about it, and it ceased development ages ago. You can save directly to remote sites (useful with PHP), makes sequential backups of any saves, and the highlighting stuff means I notice 90% of the typos I make, without being burdened by anything too elaborate. It also allows you to switch to syntaxes for ASP, SQL, Perl, etc (or design your own) which is useful for the stuff I do.
Also, macros are a godsend for a lot of general data handling stuff (e.g. formatting a list of items for insertion into a table).
A doddle to setup, and even with the docs/syntax files/other gumpf it's only 2.5mb or something like that.