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Can someone please recommend me a good editor for PHP that auto uploads on save? Basically, I do not want to store any files locally .. thx.

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  • Editor or IDE? What's your platform? – jholster Mar 30 '10 at 18:00
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    Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116292/what-is-the-best-ide-for-php – ChristopheD Mar 30 '10 at 18:02
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    Another one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6166/any-good-php-ide-preferably-free-or-cheap – ChristopheD Mar 30 '10 at 18:02
  • Most of the IDE's mentioned in the threads above have remote editing capabilities (built in or via plugins) – ChristopheD Mar 30 '10 at 18:03
  • I am running Windows 7, whats the difference between Editor and IDE? I believe I want an IDE - similar to eclipse, netbeans, visual studio etc. – vick Mar 30 '10 at 18:04
  • Editor is something like notepad (only "text" features and maybe syntax highlighting). IDE (Integrated Development Environment) will do more (code completion class inspectors, etc). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment – AlexV Mar 30 '10 at 18:15

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Id go with Eclipse+PDT or Netbeans if i were you. They are both cross platform and have the standard IDE cpabilities (code completion, syntax, snippets, class inspectors etc..). Personally i prefer Eclipse.

As far as upload on save, i would caution against this. Ideally you should never need to do this as your local workstation should be running a webserver/db/etc. Then you should be pushing up completed features to testing/staging/production/etc. servers. You should not be working directly on one of these. That said, i think you can get this functionality in both but i think its in plugins not the core.

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  • Agree on local testing. If you break your local copy beyond all repair, and for some reason have no backups, you could always download the older (and hopefully working) copy you have on your web server and start over. – Drew Mar 31 '10 at 02:48
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There is the option of auto-upload on save in Dreamweaver. Ofcourse, there are many other good piece of softwares out there having the same option. See this for more info.

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Komodo Edit supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django.

The free version includes remote editting and many more features.

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