PHPED was far to complex and involved for the tasks you wanted to complete, unfortunately as with a lot of editors out there this one is more focused on developing hard core features and packing the "Do It All" Application and doesnt focus on the intuitiveness of how the application really works ... it had a far to steep learning curve and I gave up on it in about 25 minutes

I have tried all of the IDE's/Editors mentioned here and found most of them confusing and to pack alot into a little, PHP Designer was nice ... but it is not very smart and the one thing I really didnt like about it is the Code Completion, it just gives a list of ALL functions/classes/variables available instead of ones target at the specific string you are typing.

I have been using Komodo for about 3 years now and it is absolutely wonderful, just upgraded from the free version to the IDE

Uses the same engine as firefox, written in Python/Javascript and does everything +more, but in a manner which isn't intrusive and in your face, it would say it is one of the best editors on Linux, Vim and others are still far ahead. It is also cross-platform and has a very nice license for the IDE version

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