It would seem there is a fair deal of call for an updated version of my PhpED dark theme from colleagues as well as random folks on the internet who’ve seen screenshots of my PhpED installation. I previously had my Dark Theme for 5 linked on my Review of PhpED, but I figured I could have a page dedicated to it.
The first step is to download the proper version.
Click here to download the PhpED 6 Version or here to download the PhpED 5 Version.
After you have downloaded the file you will need to replace your hl.cfg.
In Windows 7 or Vista this should be located in or around:
C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\[Roaming / Local]\NuSphere\PhpED\config
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Application Data\NuSphere\PhpED\config
The final step is to simply change your background color to a dark color. The background color is oddly saved in a different configuration file than the highlighting. This can be found in Tools ⇒ Settings ⇒ Editor ⇒ Appearance
While you're in there you may want to tweak the settings some to your taste, but that is all there is to it.
Hey! This is excellent!
Same problem here as Jaimil :(
It works as well as it can - it just happens that PhpED doesn't store all the color settings in the hl.cfg file and some of them are in a file with your other settings - so short of writing a script to patch it, I'm kind of SOL putting that out.
Hi Jesse,
Just wanted to say thanx. Saves my eyes.
Thanks! great color theme. I hope they provide some feature to easily change color scheme for phpEd
it's easier to find correct directory using Environment variables. In this case path is always %APPDATA%\nusphere\phped\config
Can confirm have imported the v6 XML into v7 and it seemed to work fine
What XML ? The file is hl.cfg
somehow i can not change the css delimiters etc
Awesome, thank you! A couple of the colors don't show up properly, but I've listed the ones I had to change below:
Ahhh.... finally i get to spare my eyes :) thanks for this!
Dark theme for PhpED 8.1 and 9.0