Hi,
I would just like to get some advice from those of you that also do some programming in PHP etc.
Basically Ive been using Notepad++ and I am absolutely satisfied with it, I love its functions and the ability to directly use it as FTP as well.
There is however one thing that it is missing and that is debugging.
I therefore installed NetBeans and that actually was even better obviously than notepad++, allowed versioning, debugging and many other functions and it is even free. Basically I liked everything about it and I would love to use it, however there is just one problem, which makes it basically unusable for me...
The problem is I dont have a PC and I only have a laptop. My laptop is now 9 yrs old and so you can probably imagine it is not the fastest
It works fine (except for the battery, which lasts like 10 seconds
), but lot changed since 2006 when I bought it and now it is not enough for even surfing the web. And here is the problem... as I said, I even have problems when running Chrome with 2-3 tabs and in parallel notepad... and the problem is NetBeans takes a lot of RAM and basically after I start it (which takes about half a minute...) it crashes or my computer freezes completely within a few minutes.
I am therefore looking for an alternative, ideally something that would be capable of checking PHP code, HTML, CSS etc., would be free to use and ideally possible to run on my laptop under win XP.
My hardware:
Win XP
1.5 GHz single core processor
1 GB RAM (unfortunately I bought it with 512MB and upgraded to 2x512, but that is the maximum it supports, so further upgrade is not possible)
60GB HDD