HyperEdit

Infobox Software
name = HyperEdit



caption = HyperEdit running on Mac OS X v10.4.
developer = Jonathan Deutsch, Tumult, Co.
latest_release_version = 1.6
latest_release_date = April 30, 2008
operating_system = Mac OS X
genre = HTML editor
license = Shareware
website = [http://www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/ www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/ ]

HyperEdit is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Jonathan Deutsch.

The software is primarily targeted at Web developers, combining a HTML (including CSS), PHP and JavaScript editor in one lightweight program. Like many similar programs, it offers (customizable) syntax highlighting for the aforementioned weblanguages. This increases the legibility of code, due to changes in color and/or font.

Some notable features include: W3C validation (underlines mistakes in red), JavaScript debugger, code snippets, color swatches pallete, StartUp Items (to load specific documents on start-up) and live preview. The latter feature is considered particularly useful, because this enables the user to view the webpage while typing. This works for both HTML (with JavaScript, if enabled in Safari) and PHP sites on Mac OS X 10.3 and above.

To display webpages, Safari is used, which has a rendering engine named (WebKit). This engine complies with most common standards and is believed to be one of the fastest available for Mac.

HyperEdit is available as Shareware, and a free demo with some limitations is available at the Developer's website for download.

PHP 5

It is possible to deploy the latest version of PHP, namely 5.x, on HyperEdit for Mac OS X v10.4 and above. Visit [http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/ Marc Liyanage's site] for the latest installer, or download and install the latest PHP 5 yourself from the [http://www.php.net/downloads.php Official PHP site] .

After the installation, open HyperEdit (again). Go to the preferences, and click the tab "Advanced". Change the "Path to PHP Binary" to "/usr/local/php5/bin/php". If you wish to revert back to PHP 4, change the path to one of the applicable directories displayed below.

References

* [http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/06/1212209 HyperEdit 1.5 Review] , MacSlash, July, 2006
* [http://www.macworld.com/2004/10/features/bargainsweb/index.php 'Mini-review of HyperEdit 1.0'] , Macworld, October 15, 2004