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I’m just curious as to what others use. I use the Zend suite but I’ve heard of a lot of different ones.

Which do you use?

I think there’s a lot of people here who don’t use a PHP IDE at all—unless Textmate is one—but it’s kinda sorta not. 

For whatever reason, I think a much larger proportion of EE users are Mac types (the whole company is one, to begin with), and there aren’t many PHP IDE’s for mac.  Eclipse is the one I use, but it’s large and slow and runs in java.  So while it works… it’s not that great.  But it’s free! 

My personal editing is Textwrangler and CSSEdit.  Need to pony up to TextMate… but if I used a IDE, I’d go for Eclipse.

Zend Suite will run on the mac, just to side-step in briefly.

/disappears

I really haven’t found that I need much more than a text editor with syntax highlighting to make me happy. Right now I’m using Coda for everything, and loving it.

I used Eclipse on my PC for both Java and PHP development, and I think it’s wonderful.  I haven’t installed it on my MacBook yet… I’ve been meaning to…

In the meantime, I’ve been using Smultron (Mac) for multi-file text editing. It’s nice, but it’s not an IDE by any means.

I recently downloaded Coda and I’ve been using it for XHTML/CSS stuff. It’s likely the most well-thought-out web-design app I’ve ever seen… though you do have to pony up $70 for it. For the XHTML/CSS stuff I’ve been doing lately, it’s phenomenal. I’m unsure of it’s PHP capabilities, though—it’ll recognize and highlight the syntax just fine, but I wouldn’t expect it to hold a candle to the larger, more comprehensive IDEs in terms of feature depth.

$70 doesn’t seem like that much to me, considering what you get out of the deal. Coda’s functions like -B for balancing (selecting everything between two braces) and the block editor have both been a godsend for me.

The only part I don’t use Coda for is previews, and that’s simply because my screen is currently too small to happily split the screen. But I’m hoping that’ll change in the near future. ;P

I don’t use either, but Komodo IDE ($295) and Komodo Edit (Free) are cross platform. Here’s my review of Komodo IDE.

why dont you use Zend its great!!. (i’am on mac to)
It has a real debugger it has auto complete (on custom classes), profiling tools etc,...

I just love it!

Grtz,

For light php coding I use Textmate (great php bundle) but every now and then I dip into Zend as well. I just wish they gave the interface a more “mac” like and not charge like crazy every time there’s an update 😊