[FX.php List] Suggestions on finding parse errors in long PHP pages

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

vim forever!

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ggt

On Nov 28, 2007 11:03 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth <tim at nicheit.com.au> wrote:
> > Dear Bob,
> >
> > I love Dreamweaver and am having a hard time giving it up; I know
> > that Joel is a big TextMate guy, and I tried it, but it's hard to
> > move away from DW when it does everything in one place. The drag,
> > though, is that parse error line numbers don't relate at all to what
> > DW shows. I may have to use TextMate for finding these errors,
> > especially in a form page when it has 500-600 lines of code.
>
> DW counts physical lines, which is just wrong ;-) A line wrap gets a
> new line number, so the DW line number is higher than the real line
> number...
>
> Some versions of php also seem to ignore lines where the If statement
> was false, so that included code doesn't count.
>
> Looks like most suggestions here are for Macs (Well, my replacement
> machine is one now, so the info is useful)... on the PC side, I swear
> by NoteTab. By accident, I discovered it has a Find Matching Brackets
> feature that has saved me sooooo much time ;-)
>
> And I'll use DW etc for initial layout, but a text editor is much
> quicker for writing the other stuff - DW takes forever to load pages
> and move around for me.
>
> Webko
>
>
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