Which PHP Editor is best?

[maildrop]

I have been browsing through the source code files and I notice there are a lot of comments in the top of each page which identify the page name and who last edited the file. I cannot imagine anyone being disciplined enough to do this each time they make a file chnage so I was thinking it must be something built into the php editor software. I have been using notepad which does not have this feature so would be very interested to know what the coders are using to edit their files and leave the comments in the code automatically.

Example:

/**
* application_top.php Common actions carried out at the start of each page invocation.
*
* Initializes common classes & methods. Controlled by an array which describes
* the elements to be initialised and the order in which that happens.
* see {@link http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...als#InitSystem wikitutorials} for more details.
*
* @package initSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: application_top.php 7470 2007-11-24 20:54:50Z drbyte $
*/
...

[Kim]

It isn't the editor that does the comments, it is part of the versioning system we use that changes the ID line automatically.

[maildrop]

ah - thanks for that information.

The obvious question then - what is a version system and which one is it you are using?

Thanks

[tony_sar]

I don't think zen gurus using notepad to write all those stuff..
there are plenty of pro version of PHP editor out there .

From Dreamweaver to more pro .. such as zend sutdio ,
aptana , eclips with php plugin .. ( free ) .. all based on eclipse

those are heavy duty IDE with complex interface for designing , debugging , refactoring , bla bla ..

i think some of those editors are more complex then the code you want to write

I started to use eclipse .. although i found it pain in the but it seems to do the job ..

[yellow1912]

That version thing is automatically updated by subversion, since you dont have access to zen subversion anyway you dont have to worry about it. If you want to add your own version id for your own files, you can look into subversion (google it)