Solve

Probably this question will make the experienced ones laugh but I use notepad to code and when there is an error it gives me the line number.
Notepad does not give a line number to find out where the problem is.
How do you work around this? If you do not use NOtepad what do you use?
Student here and no budget to buy any software.

Sane

In notepad you should be able to hit "Ctrl-G" and type in the line number.

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Jabo

You can download JEdit for free, and they have many many plugins for different programming languages; with the popularity of PHP, I'd be willing to bet they have a plugin for PHP.

ZenMasterJG

There are a variety of free editors out there, and (arguably) every single one of them is better than notepad. Here are just a few I've used over the years, in no particular order:
Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)
UliPad (http://code.google.com/p/ulipad/)
Komodo Edit (http://www.activestate.com/Products/...odo_edit.mhtml)

And my all time favorite, Emacs. (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Different people like different editors. Try a bunch and see what you like. I've tried dozens, but always end up coming back to Emacs.

Solve

tx everybody. Sane I tried ctl-G nothing happend.
I looked in the help and ended up in EDIT menu. There is a "Goto Ctrl+G" option but mine is light gray meaning I can not click on it. How do you do it?

Sane

That's strange. I don't know what that means. It's clickable for me.

I'd suggest looking into some of the editors mentioned above. Good luck.

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grimpirate

Look around the PHP forum. I remember doing something a while back which would parse PHP code (using PHP) and display the line numbers next to them. People replied with even better ways to do it. That way you could look at your code with line numbers without having to download or install another program.

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