Tools of the Trade

[Sichae]

Get ready to have your minds blown...just kidding

I am running Windows XP Home.

FTP: CuteFTP Home.
PHP Edit: Crimson Editor.
Browser: IE 6 and AOL (Shush...I am still on dial-up)
Server-Running: EasyPHP (comes with Apache, PHPmyAdmin, MySQL)
Remote SQL: PuTTY (My server is running on Linux, RedHat distribution if I am correct...bad memory)
Things to keep me occupied: GBASP, PS2, GCN and TV.

[strider]

For those few of you that haven't updated yet. . .

www.mozilla.org

Get Firefox 1.0

Bloody amazing browser!

[lonnyl]

Ok.... I figured I needed to get this diff thing down..... so I searched and searched and then searched some more.  (I have both win and linux, but edit on win)

So for you windows guys out there who need diff.....

the best thing I found was unxutils...
the commands work exactly as they do for linux....

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

[UnderDark]

Here is my setup:

OS: M$ Windows XP Home
Web Server: Abyss
PHP
MySql
MySQL C3: MySQL control center & PHPmyAdmin
FTP client: Core FTP
HTML/PHP Editor: HTML-Kit
Web Browser: Mozilla Navigator 1.7.3

With the exception of the OS, this is all freeware!

[blarg]

Hmm.. Am I the only one using XEmacs? ::readies his asbestos suit::

Seriously, emacs was the first unix editor I learned, and I've just stuck with it for over a decade now..

Some other stuff I'm currently using:
- Apache2/PHP5/MySQL on Win2000 (DBA-ing MySQL from the command-line!)
- Mozilla (Suite or Firefox, take your pick) with the Web Developer extension
- Both Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop for graphics

I had a Linux box (RH9), but it blew up (some piece of hardware died) and I've yet to get around to replacing it..

[Arune]

Fedora Core 2 On my home box and FreeBSD 4.10 on my server.  I have an XP box that my wife uses, but otherwise never gets used.

Some of my work I do on my G3 Powerbook (running OS X)

Mainly all of my work is done via Linux on pico

For an FTP server I run ProFTPD.
Client - I use normal ftp command line.

My windows box I mainly use IE/FireFox and on my Linux box I'm either using lynx or FireFox depending on what I'm surfing.

Back a long time ago I used Windows fairly commonly because I had some applications for school that ran only in a windows environment. I STRONGLY suggest if you do PHP and/or any HTML work get NotePad+.

Search for it on sourceforge its NotePad+ and its excellent!

[Jim]

I use Windows 2000 on all of my machines.
Firefox is my main browser and I feel really dirty when I us IE
Since I am not a pro like all of you I hack your modules with DreamWeaver
I use Smartftp to upload along with my hosting provider's web based control panel.

The server is running RedHat Linux 7.2

The only thing I wish I had is cpanel on my server. I love cpanel! It should be standard on the web.

[Sichae]

Get ready to have your minds blown...just kidding

I am running Windows XP Home.

FTP: CuteFTP Home.
PHP Edit: Crimson Editor.
Browser: IE 6 and AOL (Shush...I am still on dial-up)
Server-Running: EasyPHP (comes with Apache, PHPmyAdmin, MySQL)
Remote SQL: PuTTY (My server is running on Linux, RedHat distribution if I am correct...bad memory)
Things to keep me occupied: GBASP, PS2, GCN and TV.

Muahaha, finally got my Broadband connection/

FTP: IE strangely... it is the so easy and it is totally free
PHP Edit: EditPlus hotlinked on my keyboard ^.^
Browser: FIREFOX I suggest that you pick this up, wonderful
Server (That has Live Game) Gentoo Linux

Accessories: PS2, Camera, Fridge ^.^ GCN, GBASP, Many, many, many MP3s

[Hex]

old thread, but I figured I'd put mine up here just for kicks

Primary workstation: dual boot XP Pro / Custom built Linux install

Laptop: Win2K Pro, Win98SE, RedHat Linux

Test Server: Custom built Linux 2.4.20, running Apache 2.0.40, phpMyAdmin, and mySQL 3.23.54

Server: Linux 2.4.21, Apache 1.3.33, PHP 4.3.9, mySQL 4.0.20, phpMyadmin

Editors: In Win* I use UltraEdit, and in Linux I use mostly JED  (I'm a fan of syntax highlighting)  Also, because I saw a reply on the subject but didn't see UltraEdit mentioned.. UltraEdit shows when brackets aren't closed properly, and has a function (ctrl+b) to check the whole script for properly closed brackets.. Also lets you put in templates (I have templates set up for different module types, so I just insert the template and start writing.. gets rid of a lot of the redundancy.. Started playing around with Crimson edit, but it doesn't do anything UltraEdit can't do.. only plus is that it's free..

Browsers: In Win*, IE and Opera.. someday I'll check out FireFox. In Linux, Opera & Mozilla

for FTP:  WS_FTP mostly. Just had to downgrade from version 9 to version 7 because ver9 was screwing up big time. Also use windows explorer to upload files to my live server (frontpage extensions 'n all)

Remote operations: SecureCRT, ssh-client, RealVNC, cPanel 9.9.8

guess that just about covers it.. I use mostly PhotoShop 7 for graphics stuff, but I really suck at graphics design so I just contract graphics designers

[strider]

For those mac OSX users out there, a new PHP Editor I've been using lately:

Smultron - I rather like it. It's small and fast and stays out of your way but has all the features of Crimson and it's a Sourceforge project.

http://smultron.sourceforge.net

[aSeekr]

Suggest keeping an eye on TruStuio - not complete yet but due in next month or so.  The Current M6 Milestone is pretty good - the local debugger is good - but no remote debugging yet and as yet, it doesn't support debugging of Protected/Private PHP5 Class properties.

It supports PHP, HTML, JS, VBS & Python.
It's free for the basic version - or 99 USD for the pro version.

It's based around eclipse, for those who know about it.
Runs on Mac/Linux & Windows.

The debugging features are provided by xDebug - a very cool (and even useful) Zend extension for debugging.

TruStudio can be found at: http://www.xored.com/

Firefox is excellent - the only problem I've found is that when you leave it running for a couple of days without closing it down, it's memory consumption goes through the roof (150MB for a dozen tabs open).

Dasher

[enderwiggin]

Firefox is nice, and a huge improvement from IE.  However, it doesn't block all the ads, have all the features, or work as well as Maxthon.

Maxthon is the best browser I've ever seen.  It has all of Firefox's features, and then some.

[Ailean]

On windows:
Browser: firefox
ftp & sftp: fireftp & filezilla
Editor: JEdit - Plugins enable PHP syntaxhighlighting, completition & parsing. Also love the ftp-plugin. Edit trough ftp & sftp
SSH-client: PuTTY
SQL: PHPMyAdmin

On linux:
Browser: Konqueror & firefox
ftp & sftp: commandline
Editor: kate & kwrite. Only syntaxhiglighting, but I'm too lazy to install jEdit.
SQL: PHPMyAdmin

[sixf00t4]

I've been using notepad+ recently, and love it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/

[Dannic]

you would like winsyntax better.   Search for it on downloads.com.

its specificly designed for web based programming.  And its free.