I have tried them all since I am back in PHP now because of our CMS. The new Zend Studio on Eclipse is just an embaresment, I almost bought it based on my exper

I have tried them all since I am back in PHP now because of our CMS. The new Zend Studio on Eclipse is just an embaresment, I almost bought it based on my experience years ago but it has really gone downhill. The best options in my opinion are (and you should try them all yourself): * Eclipse with PDT, and the other plugins you need. Build your own better Zend studio (use Spket (www.spket.com) for JS and CSS support) * Netbeans. A lot better than Zend Studio, more features and much more stable - a great IDE (www.netbeans.org) * PHP for Visual Studio (http://www.jcxsoftware.com/ http://www.jcxsoftware.com/) or an open source version which isn't as good but showing promise: http://www.codeplex.com/php4vs http://www.codeplex.com/php4vs Btw, if you are a PHP dev and you aren't using a decent IDE (with code completion and debugging, at the very least) you are missing out on a lot. For some reason a lot of php developers tend to be notepad + var_dump hackers