Date: 03/18/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web, apache

I've been looking for a good IDE that supports PHP and have been unable to find anything really useful. I'd prefer it if I could have a streamlined updating feature, because manual updating via FTP/[insert uploading method here] is a real drag. The best I've found so far has been a plug-in for Eclipse. However, it's really laggy (every time I go to type a variable name, I get a pop-up of EVERY INSTANCE of EVERY PHP VARIABLE NAME in the entire Eclipse project), and Eclipse's WebDAV support seems very broken, with no intentions on fixing it (a stupid decision, IMHO, considering WebDAV support is touted as a major Eclipse feature).

Anybody have any recommendations? I'm really accustomed to the way IDEs such as Visual Studio, NetBeans and Eclipse work. I'm on a tight budget ($0) and I'd prefer if the solution was Free. An added plus would be WebDAV, SFTP or SCP support. My Debian server's running Apache2 with the WebDAV plugin turned on and working pretty efficiently. I have proftpd installed and marginally working, although I'd rather not use that due to no encryption. To the best of my knowledge, I don't have an SFTP or SCP daemon running on that machine (unless there's one magically bundled with proftpd).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/428141.html