Yeah, the last time I used cream it still had some issues with it. I kinda hoped they would have been smoothed out by now.
Personally I use bare vim with a few tweaks such as toning down tab size from 8 to 4 spaces. I hate 8 space tabs, especially with php code because you're intenting so much.
I like to indent 3 Spaces 
Alot neater but I need to find a editor for php only or one that you can ser up for php and Html only 
i use TextPad or notepad offcourse
it also has text-cploring,
also you can download modules into the text editor, and macro's
like creating HTML tables from plain text...
I'm using vi (or elvis, vim, or whatever vi-compatible editor) on linux boxes.
With windows, I use ultraedit, and frontpage (!) to 'prototype' the design.
BtW, I've discovered Smarty (http://smarty.php.net) some times ago and I like it.
Ultraedit has a syntax coloration extension to understand html+smarty in it, and it looks good.
Found a really nice php editor it is called Winsyntax you can get it here
it is nice the only problem is that you must save the file as php before it will hilight the code 
and the colors arn't the best but it works nice and simple.
I also use PHP-Edit. It's a great program. I use to do all of my coding in anything I could write in. And do debug tests, if it worked it worked, if It didn't... yeah. heh
I run both winXp pro, and Linux on a partioned western digital caviar HD.
you guys should try out winsyntax it is my new editor of choice
I tired the winsyntax out, it's pretty good. Like you said, nice and simple. And I like the file manager. But, I agree the coloring isn't that great.
Other than that, It's good.. and free which is always a plus.
Yea the coloring isn't the greatest but it gets the job done and you can't messit up easily and not as many buggs b/c it is simple Not that I am computer illiterate it is just that I am old fashion and like stuff that does it's job without a hassle.
I use Dreamweaver MX on Mac (at work) and WinXP (at home).
It does code completion for PHP and color-syntaxing.
I code valid XHTML 1.0 on it all the time, straight out of the box.
I used to use Homesite (on PC, on Mac DW4 but it sucks for pure coding), but now I find that DreamweaverMX beats the pants off Homesite. It can do everything Homesite could and more, IMHO.
It is a resource hog, like all the Macromedia MX products,
but so is Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
and since i rarely have anything else open but a couple of browsers when coding it doesn't much bother me
Yea that is cool but code completion may save on errors but it gets anoying at times to believe me I program in VB 6.0 Also a big problem with those editors is that they cost money I love open source software and freeware.
Currently I'm using Homesite on Win2K professional. I've used Notepad, VI, UltraEdit, TextPad, and Dreamweaver in the past. I have to say that TextPad is a sentimental favorite, but I had to give it up for something more robust.
Homesite's extended search and replace is great in v5.0 (not so reliable in previous versions). The syntax highlighting is good, but it's a shame you can't define custom templates/rules.
I'll have to check out some of the freeware editors mentioned here, like ConTEXT, PHPEdit, and SourceEdit. PHPEd sounds more and more attractive in spite of the price tag. I'm surprised not to see a single endorsement of Zend Studio though. Maybe I won't have to spend time checking it out yet...
Hum, looks like I'm one of the few that use Notepad for my PHP editing. Its got a small memory footprint, and on XP works like wordpad on other 9x os'. I find editors take up my entire screen with all sorts of shit I don't need. I'm never doing only one thing at a time, so notepad works great with 4 or 5 open, all viewable at once :p
But, I do admit sometimes I use WordPad, it replaces alot faster and loads large scripts way faster than notepad. However when pasting code from other sources it takes the formatting with it, so its kinda a nusance.
If I'm on nix I use pico shrug
u don't use regexp search and replace? :eek:
recently my system crashed, I dropped a pen in the open case and it went kaput. It's not funny guys....
Anyway, I went back to an old system lying around, it's running windows XP pro and had no editor installed. I had the choice of going with homesite, Ultraedit and various others recommended on this post. Quite a helpful post honestly as I tried a lot of the editors, so thx all.
At the end of the day however, HomeSite (4.5.2) was the pick of the litter. I'll probably try PHPEd before moving back to my original desktop, see how it runs on wintendo. It was quite slick on linux.
-m.
you did what?
snarfle
rofl
dropped a pen in the open case
LAMO no that is funny droping a pen in an open computer case.
That Cracks me up. j/k
hmmmm LAMO as in LMAO? 
Pencil dropping is the first cause for early failure along with running in server room and tripping on a wire (preferebly the main server's power supply) and the ever so funny coffee mug poored on CPU (works with coffee or Montain dew cf.:http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10212506)
I confess that I have to change my keyboard every now and then (6 month is my max record) because i do drop a lo of things in the keyboard (clipping devices, ashes from my cigars, stapples and my all time favorite, the coffee mug or the rum glass).
Keith Edmunds maintains a pretty exhaustive list of PHP-friendly editors at: