While developing the CBIntuition script, I needed a decent PHP editor. Whenever your write code, whether it's a web script or a conventional programming language, life is a lot easier if the display is syntax-highlighted.
What this means is that the script or programming language's keywords are displayed in a different style - bold for example. Numbers and text are displayed in different colours, as are comments. This makes programming a lot easier.
There are a number of highlighting editors available, but I remembered that I once wrote a highlighting editor for the Pascal and C++ programming languages. With a bit of tweaking, this could become a web page editor which recognises and highlights PHP, HTML, Javascript and XML.
So PHPIntuition is born.
Another useful feature of programmers editors is "code snippets". This is an idea I came up with years ago, and evidently many other programmers have thought of too.
Basically it's a set of "library" functions that can be simply pasted in to your code wherever you need them. Similarly, if you write some code that you might use again and again, you can create your own snippets.
PHPIntuition provides you with a set of snippet libraries for PHP, HTML and JavaScript. Additionally, it lets you save your own snippets.
The expected release date of PHPIntuition is during the first quarter of 2008.
We'll keep you posted.
