Good WYSIWYG web editor (php, CSS, HTML, Javascript) for Ubuntu?

Question

I'm looking for suggestions as to what good easy to use web editors? It needs to edit php,javascript,html,CSS. I'm looking for something that'll speed up my development currently I'm using nano.

Solution 1

I would go with Eclipse.

Check out Eclipse + PDT + Aptana.

My current dev system works like this:

4 monitors: 1 for coding (eclipse), 1 for Firefox, 1 for IE and one for logs.
1 virtual machine that is a close duplicate of the production server.
Use AutoHotKey and, as I save the page, it gets uploaded to virtual machine and both IE and Firefox get refreshed.

Have been working like this for more than one year now and I can asure you my productivity has gone up.

That and redbull. ;)

Solution 2

Kompozer (also available in the ubuntu repository) is one of the few WYSIWYG HTML editors for Linux I know of. It looked quite solid when I tried it some time ago, definitly worth a try if you want WYSIWYG.

Solution 3

I hear alot of unix users are fan of VI on the commandline. For desktop I started with notpad++ (also available on linux) and evolved to using Eclipse. The later took quite some time to get the hang of.

Solution 4

I used to use Bluefish when I used to work with PHP:

apt-get update && apt-get install bluefish

If you want an uber-geek command-line you could use Emacs (it has a PHP mode):

apt-get update && apt-get install php-elisp

If you are looking for full IDE support you could try Eclipse or even KDevelop.

I do not have any experience with it but, since you are on Ubuntu, you could also try gphpedit since it describes itself as a "PHP/HTML/CSS Development Environment":

apt-get update && apt-get install gphpedit

Check out the features page at gphpedit:

http://www.gphpedit.org/features.phtml

Solution 5

Emacs is the classic editor. Vi(m) good too, especially for edits over ssh. Might be overkill, but eclipse has plugins to handle most languages.

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Comments

[Sinjo]

Actually, looking at the PHP package, it does include this feature anyway. I'd only ever used it standalone myself, since I don't work with PHP. The prepackaged PHP Eclipse bundle is certainly worth a go then!

[jpluijmers]

Thanks for the comment. Ill keep that in mind, stackoverflow is quite different from normal boards :)

[Dave McClelland]

@kbrimington - Has the answer been edited? Its current form doesn't seem argumentative at all

[jpluijmers]

@kbrimington without this turning into a unix vs windows fight. I would like to state that I maintain multiple BSD servers so iam sertainly not biased ;) I never used VI but it is largely popular within the group of programmers that program on the shell. And as for "I like eclipse", i merely tried to give him a startpoint and a advanced option for when he feels like it. Or atleast tell him how I grew in IDE's @dave mcelland Post hasn't been edited.

[kbrimington]

Fair enough. I've withdrawn my comments.