I remember using Coda last year, and I wasn't too impressed with it.įor other languages I've learned (Java and Powershell), I've gained a lot from using IDEs. Unix web servers have way too many options to have something 'built-in', but MAMP should do OK for your purposes. Your 'MySQL client' is your shell, or something like Navicat at best (worst). Your other stuff: OS X tries to get away from it, but outside of Xcode, development on the system is very Unixy and to have the best experience you're probably going to need to come to grips with that. This is perhaps most significant for PHP, where you end up having to read the documentation to avoid the unending stupid gotchas you'll find everywhere. I would suggest avoiding autocompletion and intellisense until you're sufficiently competent that you need it for productivity rather than for code exploration none of HTML, CSS, or PHP is difficult enough to really need it when your text editor is side-by-side with a browser, and you'll learn more if you're actually reading reference material instead of tabbing through things. I've used Coda and Espresso and find them both lacking, but they're common options as well. I'm willing to buy the software, so free items aren't the only options. I like to type out the code by hand, so WYSIWIG features aren't important to me.

This would be nice but not really necessary. That way if I'm previewing a web page on my local PC, I can see if AJAX, PHP, etc are working properly. A web server service that starts when the program starts, and ends when the program ends. This is something that Visual Studio has but Expression Web lacks. After that, I can click 'Upload changed files' and it will upload whatever has changed. A setting where I enter the hostname, password, and default folder for my web server one time. So I don't have to edit with one program and upload with another. Expression does this for HTML and JavaScript, but not for PHP. Likewise, something that catches syntax errors. Something where if type '

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