Any good software to "clean up" PHP code?

[Entity]

I use pico and ultraedit to code, and sometimes I get a bit lazy. I'm cleaning up a whole bunch of functions I wrote right now, and want to change stuff like this...

include_once("../config.inc");
echo ("
<h3>Please select a professor</h3>
<p>
<form target=\"mainpage\" action=\"editprof.php\" method=\"post\">
Edit Professor Data:");

To be a bit more cleanly, maybe more like this:

include_once("../config.inc");
echo ("
<h3>Please select a professor</h3>
<p>
<form target=\"mainpage\" action=\"editprof.php\" method=\"post\">
Edit Professor Data:");

(I hope the tabs and spaces show up right).

What's something good to do this with?

Rob

 

[bUnMaNGo]

hmm the tabs don't show up correctly here =\ sorry... I found that using textpad, selecting "replace", and pasting in what you wanna replace worked rather well

 

[heat23]

nope the tabs and spacing didnt work right

But id be very interested in one myself..i am such a sloppy coder

 

[Entity]

Ok, the tabs & stuff don't show up right (not sure how to do this on a FT board...but I think you get the idea. Have tabs, etc., inserted where they should be...i.e. after if clauses, etc.

Rob

 

[gopunk]

hmm, working on a php page here right now... be interested in hearing if anybody has anything. btw, how do you frickin' debug stuff... do i have to download that dbg thing, or is it as simple as setting some global variable....

 

[Beau]

Hey rob, & nbsp; works for spaces here just replace the tabs with 5x & nbsp; (minus the space between the & and n).

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: gopunk
hmm, working on a php page here right now... be interested in hearing if anybody has anything. btw, how do you frickin' debug stuff... do i have to download that dbg thing, or is it as simple as setting some global variable....

Are you working on it in Windows? I usually just insert code that reports the errors...like this:

$result = mysql_db_query($database, $query, $connection) or die ("Error in query: $query. " . mysql_error());

Guess that probably doesn't help.

Have you tried PHPEdit?

Rob

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: gopunk
hmm, working on a php page here right now... be interested in hearing if anybody has anything. btw, how do you frickin' debug stuff... do i have to download that dbg thing, or is it as simple as setting some global variable....

Are you working on it in Windows? I usually just insert code that reports the errors...like this:

$result = mysql_db_query($database, $query, $connection) or die ("Error in query: $query. " . mysql_error());

Guess that probably doesn't help.

Have you tried PHPEdit?

Rob

hehe, yea you give me too much credit. i'm talking about those really annoying and stupidly simple errors like the one i just *finally* found... ones where i make two variables with the same name

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: gopunk
hmm, working on a php page here right now... be interested in hearing if anybody has anything. btw, how do you frickin' debug stuff... do i have to download that dbg thing, or is it as simple as setting some global variable....

Are you working on it in Windows? I usually just insert code that reports the errors...like this:

$result = mysql_db_query($database, $query, $connection) or die ("Error in query: $query. " . mysql_error());

Guess that probably doesn't help.

Have you tried PHPEdit?

Rob

hehe, yea you give me too much credit. i'm talking about those really annoying and stupidly simple errors like the one i just *finally* found... ones where i make two variables with the same name

You should try out PHPed from NuSphere. I've been using it for the past week and like it quite a bit. Download and install their Technology Platform and you can run everything right on your desktop without having to be online. Run scripts, debug, create and access a database, etc. Very convenient. It has a built in debugger that I'm just checking out now to see how that works out.

 

[Descartes]

Methinks those who are confessed "sloppy coders" shouldn't be coding in the first place....

 

[manly]

Emacs with a good PHP major mode would probably reindent source just fine (not speaking from direct experience).