@Mushr00m ah, yes. You won't want to mess with v7. v8 introduced so many new features, including Blade syntax mode.

@mikebronner and L5 blade syntax is not working again...

@keevitaja I noticed that indentation in L4 Blade syntax is broken again as well. sigh

PHPStorm for life!

If you think it has too many features... then don't use them? It's fast and extensible, and if you want, you can customize everything.

It is the de-facto IDE for PHP, hands down. Just don't overwhelm yourself trying to launch a space shuttle before you can walk.

If you only want to edit text, Sublime or Vim is the way to go. You will lose a lot of the usefulness and functionality of those two by not being masters at them though.

If you are willing to learn and configure the intricacies of VIM or the keyboard shortcuts and packages of Sublime, why not just learn PHPStorm and get IDE features for free?

@Mushr00m if you only have FTP access, you can use git-ftp (https://github.com/git-ftp/git-ftp) to PUSH your local changes via FTP only. It's not even close to deploying the correct way via git, but does a good job of only uploading changed files while still using git for your workflow. Worth a look.

@fuzzeemic I will check this out thanks.

Was solely on BBedit for years but have recently started to migrate to PhpStorm. I like some of the things that PhpStorm has to offer but still loveBBEdit's search and search/replace across entire folders.

I love that PhpStorm stands by open source and gives out registered licenses if you have a verifiable open source project.

I actually really like Coda 2.5. So far it has been good for me. Can't beat the interface. I've used phpstorm and like what it had to offer but it just seemed sluggish. Sublime was also very fast and nice but ultimately I ended up going back to Coda because I like the UI so much. Still want to use VIM. I also really enjoyed the online editor, cloud 9. It felt like sublime and coda in one to me but I was getting sick of having to install node and other packages to get it to connect to my server every time I created a new one.

@bashy 110% agree on atom. It might be fine, but as soon as I played with for a few minutes it pissed me off they copied sublime text. But to each his/her own.

@jekinney It's become a bit better since version 1 was released. I sometimes use it for single file projects

I’ve actually just recently converted to Atom after being a long-time user of TextMate 2.

I tried Atom when it was a beta and just found it to be really sluggish, but decided to give it another go a week or so ago and it’s dramatically better. It’s almost like a completely different editor now it’s been “promoted” to version 1.

I spent a little bit of time installing a couple of helpful packages and a port of the theme I used in TextMate, and have pretty much fallen in love with Atom.

i tried phpstorm, brackets, atom and VScode, and ofcourse sublime text. and personally i find Sublime text 3 to be the best for coding, because it's really clean, fast and extensible

@adibhanna And comes with prompts to buy every 50 saves ;)

What's wrong with netbeans?