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Hi Friends

Till now, I have been coding my PHP files mainly in Notepad. I had used a few PHP IDEs earlier, but were not satisfied. I found them too cumbersome and some were quite unstable. Now it's becoming rather tedious to edit in Notepad. So I am looking for a simple, good and FREE PHP editor.
PHP.net lists some free PHP editors, but it's difficult to ascertain how good they are. So I am asking you, what are your experiences ? What would you recommend ?
My Requirements are :
1. It should run on Windows XP
2. It should be Free
3. It should be simple. From my experience, I have found that many of the features of most IDEs (PHP or otherwise) are used quite rarely, but they unnecessarily clutter the screen and hog resources. So a simple stable IDE / Editor with less esoteric features would be just fine.

Thanks

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Member Avatar for somedude3488

i use notepad++ and i have liked it so far. they have some pretty nice features and some great plugins people have built for it.

Member Avatar for stephen84s

Eclipse does have some plugins for PHP

Member Avatar for nav33n

I use devphp. It has some bugs, but still, its good ! :)

Member Avatar for roh3x2n

I use notepad++.

Member Avatar for GGAB

Three points for notepad++. It's strenght is it's simplicity, and is very lightweight.

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one of his requirments was "free"

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