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Text editor for Mac - PHP Tutorial
From the course: PHP Essential Training
Text editor for Mac
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to make sure that you have a good text editor installed. This is what we're going to be using to write our PHP code. If you've been coding before, then you may already have a favorite text editor, and that's great. You can feel free to use any text editor that you want. The only requirement is that it needs to just generate only text at the end. That's what a text editor does. It's very different from a word processor, like Microsoft Word, that would be a terrible text editor. And the reason why is because that is focused on a different purpose, it's about formatting a document. So it keeps all sorts of extra information in the file. Like, where are your margins set, what are your tabs set at, what font is being used? All that information gets stored in there, and we don't want it in there. We want just our code, just the instructions that the Apache web server is going to read and…
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