>>> 1a) What is your currently preferred PHP IDE?

NuSphere PHPEd for a few years now.

>>> 1b) What are the pros and cons of it?

Pros:
- Syntax coloring and highlighting
- Code completion for all classes and functions (not just built-in
ones)
- Code completion for freshly introduced/defined variables and
functions on the fly.
- Realtime code validation
- Supports HTML, JS and CSS code coloring and basic completion
- Auto complete for docblocks
- PHP Manual built in to IDE
- Debugging integration
- Database integration
- Built in PHPDocumentor
- Built in HTMLTidy
- Built in SOAP client
- NuSphere is always on the pulse of PHP develepment. PHPEd 5.9
supports PHP 5.3 and the code nav and explorer are updated to support
name spacing.

Cons:
- "Search in files" is rather un-intuitive compared to software such
as Dreamweaver
- File structure update not automatic. Must manually refresh in most
cases except delete or copy from inside the IDE itself.
- Some odd default keyboard shortcuts
- No SVN integration (CVS only)

>>> 2) What other PHP IDE's have you had experience with?

- Eclipse PDT
- Zend Studio 6 and 7
- Dreamweaver (still use for templating)
- UltraEdit

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