Ok, one problem.

I have no Eclipse experience before and i trying to setup the most suitable packages to work with all the things:
- PHP with ZF
- CSS
- HTML

Now i am using Eclipse with some added tools for CSS (Aptana IDE), but is lacking HTML support (i mean in dreamweaver HTML editor is much better than what package is default on Eclipse -Web standard tools i guess).

So i am wondering what exactly configuration do you use to work best for all - PHP with ZF, HTML, CSS, JS ?

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I've gave up with Zend Studio....
Anyone had problem with working on remote server with ZS?
Saving / Accessing files took me ages on v5.5
On other IDEs it was ok...
I've tried to find the solution for this problem, unfortunately google didn't find anything at all

My configuration is following:
Eclipse 3.2.2 (I should upgrade to 3.3.0)
PDT (and required packages, eg WST)
Sublicpse for SVN
JSEclipse for Javascript Editing

After making needed configuration (eg include paths) you can edit HTML,PHP and JS with syntax highlight and code completion.

And for debugging I use Firefox with Firebug - and from PHP I use PEAR's Log module with firebug.

IMHO this is quite nice setup for developing stuff with Zend Framework.

BR,
Gummi

Hey guys, I have to say, Komodo IDE is the COOLEST php IDE I've ever used, and I've been through most of the common ones. It has a debugger that works so well I can't tout it up enough. It is NOT free tho, which is unfortunate. As the free ones go, Eclipse is probably the best, as it is fast and snappy, and x-plaf. The only reason I think Eclipse is better than Zend's editor is that it is faster. Zend's editor pins my CPU pretty bad, but it has a nice feature set.

Komodo if you can get someone to buy you a license or can afford one of your own. It's the best one.

I"d second that. It'd be nice if DW did a better job with development, but alas, it seems to stuck in design tool mode....

I worked with Eclipse to develop some little apps in Java, and also used RADRails extension.
The bad thing is that Eclipse is a very hungry monster wanting to eat a lot of RAM in your computer.

I tried Zend Studio and is works fine to me. It integrates seamless with ZF, so i'm starting to use it not only to learn ZF, but in many other projects. I like it, is very handy. And (a little) less hungry for memory than Eclipse.
I never had unstabilty problems (except when I changed a FTP password for a FTP directory, but solved quicly editing config XMLs),

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I have mostly used Zend Studio 5.5 and that seemed to work well for pure PHP development (have not used it with ZF).

I have just started to use ZF and decided to try out the Zend for Eclipse beta. My initial reaction is that it is very impressive. Things I liked the most (in no specific order):
- code completion (PHP, HTML and CSS)
- automatic detection of errors (indicated in code and file tree)
- the perspective idea which changes the IDE layout depending on your current activity - editing, debugging, database work
- ZF specific support for MVC view and generation
- refactoring for move and rename of file and functions

It definitely uses more memory than ZS 5.5 but I think the productivity gains are worth it.

Although this is an ancient thread the info within might still be relevant so here's my take on the question at hand.

Nusphere PhpED. That is the last php IDE you will ever try, it is that good!
Like all good things in life this isn't free unfortunately. But it is fairly cheap.
When it comes to source control tortoise(svn) is your friend.

(I do all my dev on a windows machine so naturally I've only tried the windows version of PhpED.)

anyone tried PhpEd? Seems to score well, on php development

Look at my post, right above yours.