spec me a php editor

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From doing a search, I know there have been a few other threads on this in the past but I'd like to ask again because there are so many programs out there and I have some specific features I'd like.

I have recently had to take over maintaining a large php system, with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The code is not well commented, not indented, heavily nested and there are hundreds of functions with bad names sitting in some included files that are often referenced.

So I want an editor that can take care of the lack of proper indents by using some kind of colour coding or something. It would also be nice if it could allow me to right click on a function like you can do in some of the MS editors, and click define, and have it pull up whatever file that function is in and scroll to it.

I don't need ftp support. Ideally it should be on Windows, but Linux is also acceptable. Free is better but I don't mind paying a reasonable amount if needed.

In the past I've mostly just used notepad but I don't think it's up to the job in this case, and searching around there seem to be a lot of php editors out there, and I don't want to have to install 20 of them to find a good one. So, please help!

 

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Well NetBeans seems to be the most recomended in this thread. I've just tried it but it locked up within 5 minutes of me starting to use it, so that's out!

I've now installed phpDesigner, which looks quite nice and the code beautifier seems awesome! Instead of colour coding all the badly indented code it will actually fix it. The only downside is it doesn't seem to recognise the code as php unless you specifically put the <?php in. It doesn't know the shebang.

I might give eclipse a try as well.