


May be worth checking out, but apparently it's relatively resource-hungry. If I was starting out, this would be my recommendation.Ī lot of people love Eclipse with PDT, but I've never really used it. Fast and powerful, it is easy to use and has a lot of cool features : class browser, scripts preview, integration with PHP parsers, PHP-GTK library, and Xdebug of course.It's also nice to be able to specify a URL to preview your current file that is not necessarily the path of the file itself - so you can edit a class file and preview it using a test harness very easily.It's got really good code completion & browsing.It's got good syntax highlighting and error correction.It's fully cross-platform (because it's based on XUL).I've recently started using Komodo Edit (The free version of Komodo IDE), and I'm really liking it.

(The plugins I install are: BufferList, CtagsSidekick (along with ctags), Editor Scheme, FTP (remote editing FTW!), JDiff, JTidy, PHPParser, Sessions, SideKick, TaskList, XML and XML Indenter.).It's java-based, and a little heavy on resources, but it's cross-platform.It has the easiest-to-use Diff tool I've used.It has excellent remote-file editing support with the FTP plugin.It's got great syntax highlighting (esp.JEdit is a great editor, but you need to install some plugins before it's at its best.
