Editing Scripts
PHP scripts are just text files, and you can edit and create them just as you would HTML files. Certainly, you can telnet into your Web server and start creating files with vi. Or you can create files with notepad and use ftp to upload them one by one. But these aren't ideal experiences. One handy feature of newer editors is built-in FTP. These editors can open files on a remote Web server as if they were on a local drive. A single click saves them back to the remote Web server. Another feature you may enjoy is syntax highlighting. This causes PHP keywords to be colored in order to help you read the code faster.
Everyone has a favorite editor for PHP scripts. I use UltraEdit <http://www.ultraedit.com/>. I know many Windows users ...
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