Posted by Michael Trausch on 01/04/06 02:59

David Haynes wrote:
>
> At the high end are the IDEs. These include:
> Zend, enginsite editor for PHP, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Rapid PHP,
> Eclipse (using a third-party plugin) and others.
>

I second this class of development editor. I used to use Dreamweaver,
but stopped using that because I was no longer entitled to use it when
my previous employ ended. Then I switched to Notepad++ before coming
across Eclipse + PHPEclipse. Of all of them, I must say that Eclipse is
my favorite. I like the ability to have it tell you nearly anything in
real time. When you open the project up, it will flag everything that's
wrong nearly instantly, when you save the file, it will display a
refreshed copy in the browser (in Windows, I haven't got that
functionality working on my Linux development machine yet). And to top
it all off, Eclipse, since it's written in Java, works on Linux as well
as Windows (and I rather suspect other platforms). And it's freely
available.

So, I'd say that my vote goes to Eclipse. :)

- Mike

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