What IDE do you use?

[yktan]

For the PHP programmers (or hobbyists) out there, what IDE do you use for editing PHP scripts?

So far, I've done it using a Text Editor without text highlighting etc and I'm thinking that the development time can be greatly reduced if I am able to find a good IDE.

I'm using IntelliJ for Java development and I've gotta say, it's one of the best IDE I've seen. Anyone knows of an IDE with similar features for PHP?

Thanks.

Regards,
YK

[Ap0s7le]

For me I use EditPlus, I really enjoy the program. I use it for just about everything.

later

[yktan]

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I was using TextPad all these while and it doesn't support PHP. Yesterday, my brother recommended me EditPlus and I really like it (except there are too many colours, but I heard it can be customised). I've seen numerous PHP IDEs like Nusphere PHPEd and they have wonderful features (like debugging tools) but I seriously doubt any freelancer/lone programmer will pay USD$350 for an IDE.

Thanks for answering Ap0s7le.

[dcb]

Eclipse with the PHP plugins is free and and very good. The PHP plugin offers all the normal stuff like syntax highlight, code templates, but also a lot of other features that you find only in expensive IDEs like: autocomplete, syntax check (the code is compiled on the fly and the errors are highlighted), phpdoc support, help integration, debugging (although not straight forward to setup), code formatting, etc.
Also Eclipse is integrated with almost anything possible and supports all programming languages you can imagine. It has plugins for a wide variety of SCMs like: CVS, SVN, Perforce, SourceSafe. There are extensions for database programming and manipulation, anything you can imagine.
The only downside is that it requires a lot of resources (a good CPU and probably at least 512Mb of RAM), but the hardware is not that expensive now.

[Surfr]

OS X Terminall.app and vim inside it :) It's the only way.

[f1gm3nt]

Quanta Plus it's one of the best editors for linux