Review - NuSphere's PHPEd

The PHP Manual's Built In!

PHPEd also includes a built-in copy of the PHP manual. To see a definition and example for any function, simply type that function's name into your script and then press the F1 function key:

When I create ASP pages, I use Visual Interdev. My favorite feature of Visual Interdev is its unlimited undo command. Much to my surprise, PHPEd also supports unlimited undo commands from the edit menu. This is great when you decide to change some critical aspect of your code, save it, and then decide to revert back to the older code at the last minute.

Another feature that caught my attention was PHPEd's very intuitive settings dialog. By simply clicking on the Tools -> Settings menu option, I was greeted by a huge number of tabs containing all the options that PHPEd uses to format code, complete words, connect to Apache, etc., contained in this window:

The "Code templates" tab provides code samples for some of PHP's most popular keywords and functions including "switch", "for", "mysql_connect" and "list". If you find a new function that you know you'll almost always use, then you can click on the "Add" button to add it to the list of functions with your own code example:

Because I normally create my PHP code with notepad, I wasn't used to PHPEd automatically closing brackets and braces for me. Actually, I found it quite annoying. Luckily, though, there were "Auto-close quotes" and "Auto-close brackets" options in the settings menu which I simply unchecked.