PHPEdit is one great application

I have been looking for a long time for a PHP IDE to help in some of the more complex aspects of PHP development where working in a text editor is just not efficient. I tried PHP Designer 2007 but there where some bugs that made it too annoying to work in so I continued to test some others all along working inside of my favorite text editor, emEditor. Then I came across PHPEdit and was very impressed with the interface and functionality. Once I got the editor colors setup and set the font to Consolas I was ready to really start hammering on it.

Pros:

• The IDE is very powerful and customizable to fit my likes
• Very stable. No crashes or bugs that I have come across
• There is just too much to list here. This application is feature rich without pushing too much in front of the user. You see what you need and the rest is in the background when you need it.
  

Cons:

• Some of the auto-complete options I find annoying. Need to find out where this is controlled
  
• At times the IDE layout seems to change or revert back when starting the application. I think I just need to save an IDE configuration I can recall
• The contextual help is hard to use since it only has a scrolling window and never enough space to use it along side an open document. This feature is really nice to have and something I just need to figure out how to use effeciently. Also, the more you write code the less you will need this active.
• Really needs an active highlighter for brackets on control statements - Kinda like how PHP Designer does it (they call it Highlight Matching Brace/Brackets).

Even though I list some cons there really isn't anything wrong with this application (maybe the price) so, if you are doing PHP or any web dev work check it out.

Link:
http://www.waterproof.fr/products/PHPEdit/