Best 5 Lightweight PHP Editors
I always use Dreamweaver for editing/coding PHP codes & not being a programmer it works fine with me. Also have used Netbeans couple of times, but had issues with windows/Adobe & thought of experimenting with some lightweight free PHP editors for just the fun of it. 
Notepad++ - It is based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, & written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. The best part is it uses low amount of resources that it uses& comes with great configuration possibilities. Operating System – Windows
Programmer’s Notepad- This is quiet a easy & fast editor with features as
- Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes
- Multi-language user interface # Text Clips provide smart templates for text insertion
- Code Folding/Outlining the place in the file where they were generated
- Split Views
Operating System – Windows
DevPHP-Dev-PHP is a well-featured, fast IDE which is easy to use and has a lot of cool features : class browser, scripts preview, integration with PHP parsers, PHP-GTK library, and Xdebug. Operating System – Windows
Arisesoft Winsyntax- It is a very lightweight editor with features as # The search and replacing of the text in external files with different encoding.
- Code explorer for PHP-scripts – tree of the classes with variables and functions.
- Highlighting of syntax by different colors and styles of a font.
- Highlighting of syntax for several script languages in one document.
- Opportunities for customizing of highlighting and the addition of new languages.
- Multiple history of ‘Undo-Redo’ for the edited documents.
- Selection of the text by columns-lines-symbols.
- Conversion of tabulators to a series of spaces.
- Supporting of the line kinds for PC/UNIX and encoding between ANSI-UTF8-KOI8. # Gutter with numbering of lines of the text.
- Moving by mouse of the selected block of the text.
- Moving the cursor with ignoring of the line carry – for all width of line.
- Autoindent of the input line by start position of the previous line.
- Integrated File Manager for rapid access to the documents.
Operating System – Windows
Jedit-Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows. – Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the “plugin manager” feature. – Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages. - Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
October 17, 2011