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For anybody coding or wanting to code in PHP, a decent editor is vital. Sticking with old-fashioned notepad just won’t cut it, what you need is the mothership of editors – and I think I’ve found it!

PHP Expert Editor is developed by Ankord Development Group, and is one of the more serious entries in this field. And at 35 EUR for a life time license, it won’t shred your wallet either. (What? You didn’t expect it to be free, did you?)

The basics of the editor make writing a PHP script a breeze, with features such as code highlighting – where the difference between HTML and PHP is blazingly obvious, and identifying quotes that have been left open isn’t a needle-in-a-haystack job anymore. But other features such as the left hand side structure that allows you to close blocks of text off and just work with the text you need make editing considerably less stressful.

PHP Expert Editor also has an FTP client built in, enabling it to access practically anything.

What else is there? A built in colour selector, all the usual HTML form tools, HTML symbols, auto indentation, macros, syntax checking and integrated script checking. Basically – yes – this is truly the mothership. Get on board.

I think the most useful feature in this editor would be its knowledge of PHP’s internal functions. When you type ‘join’, a helpful balloon appears above the cursor showing you the appropriate parameters for the function. It does it with everything, and really helps the programmer concentrate on what matters – the coding.

If you want to try it, it comes with a 30 day trial, so you don’t have anything to lose. You can download it at www.phpexperteditor.com.