I have not developed in PHP for 10 years. When I last did, I was using Homesite as the development environement. I would like to know what tools do folks use to develop PHP applications these days.


Thanks,
Fred

Of course, we can code in anything from textpad to Zend Studio.

But the ones I have used that I really like are:
Zend Studio. ($500)
Pro->Can follow the Class Structure inside and out and knows language.
Con->Doesn't support other languages like JavaScript Nearly as well, and doesn't work well with large files.
Ultra Edit (or UE Studio) ($150)
Pro->Seems to manage all languages equally well. Allows for custom tools, like use CTRL+T to test your PHP against PHP CLI
Con->Doesn't know the language nearly as well and has a harder time with tool tips with complicated code.
NotePad++ (Free)
Pro->Great editor for editing pages when you don't care about much of a project or collection of files.
Con->Doesn't have any means of organizing your files. No support for FTP or Subversion/CSS

Those are the three I am going to put out there.

For other OS's, I think BBEdit (Mac) is great, Bluefish (Linux)

Hope that helps,

I have not developed in PHP for 10 years. When I last did, I was using Homesite as the development environement. I would like to know what tools do folks use to develop PHP applications these days.


Thanks,
Fred

I just thought of this too... I started out in homesite about 10 years ago... If you are feeling remaniscent, Homesite was more or less eaten up by the ColdFusion Studio, then Macromedia Bought Allaire and it started integrating to Dreamweaver. Now that adobe owns macromedia, they said screw coldfusion, and integrated the language to dreamweaver.

So, if you want to cough up for Adobe's web developers package, you can get Dreamweaver, which is a dirty-rotten-red-headed-step-grandchild of homesite. :)

I use Eclipse with the PHP development tools (PDT) and XDebug add-ons. It takes a little effort to set everything up but the ability to step through your code with a debugger is worth it. I haven't tired this yet, but I believe basic intellisense support is also available which could be a big time saver.