I'm still searching for the best PHP editing enviroment, with Actionscript live is sweet (ok, still no great documentation tool) but with PHP things can be much sweeter.
I'm using two IDE's, Zend Studio and Eclipse. They have their good points for PHP editing and the weaknesses.
Here is a list:
Zend StudioStrong points:
- Great code completion
- Great integrated FTP client
Weaknesses:
- Program is ugly, works crappy
- Version 4.0 works great but lacks some features 5.0 doesn't work on my nice laptop (100% CPU)
Eclipse
Strong points:
- Beautiful interface
- Nice plugin system, for example: Flex Builder 2 or for php PHPEclipse
Weaknesses:
- No FTP / primitive FTP support
- PHP code completion is slow
Well I'm still searching, please do you know something beter?