Hey I have been try learning PHP on my own for about 6 months now. I still not great but getting much better. I have been using Dream weaver MX 2004 for my PHP coding. Now I was wondering what other PHP programmer’s use. So I though I would ask here.
And please say why you use it.
Thanks a bunch.
Check the EL FAQ. This is discussed periodically - at least one of the threads was noted by Bunkermaster when he wrote the FAQ. You could also search for "Editor" and "WYSIWYG" among the EL posts....
TextPad, aint nothing better! But yah got to download the php/html syntax highlighter and add it to really get the good out of it.
vim
what are the benefit of using Zend Studio?
I would use Eclipse PHP. It is free and two benefits are it has PHP code help and you can Debug your pages.
but if you can get ZEND or use it what would be the benefits
http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio/standard.php
that lists the features of the zend environment. i use it occasionally. its nice for testing and debugging locally when im too lazy to log onto the server and edit with vim.
/Weedpacket echoes dalecosp's sentiments.
This is what you get if you use Zend.
Professional IDE w/ Editor, Debugger, and Help
Multi Language Support
Professional Editor
Syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, XHTML, and JavaScript
NEW! Syntax highlighting for XML & CSS
Code Templates
Support PHP 4 and PHP 5
Advanced Code Completion
PHP Code (+PHPDoc) Analysis
Professional Internal Debugger
NEW! Code Snippets
PHP Code Analyzer
Remote Debugger
Remote Profiler
NEW! Database Connectivity & Integration for: IBM DB2/Cloudscape/ Derby, MySQL, Oracle Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, and PostgreSQL
NEW! Set of SQL tools: SQL Query Editor, SQL Explorer, and more.
NEW! PHPDocumentor
FTP (includes NEW Advanced integration)
CVS Integration for Team Development
PHP Intelligence
Scripts Errors & Performance Bottlenecks Reports
Alert Rules
XML Integration
QA/Testing Solution
Staging Platform
Centralized Management Console
Performance API
/me echoes Weedpacket who echoed dalecosp
So much of the post (from the EL FAQ) is so outdated I would not recommend anyone reading it except for maybe the very last page. Much of the information is obsolete as the editors they discussed have since been upgraded 4 times since the post was made (2002). As editors are constantly changing I think a new post should be created that discusses and highlights all the new editors that exist now.
Sure, create a new post - in that thread. That's what it's for. That's why it's linked in the FAQ. That's why it's "except maybe the very last page" - those are the most recent posts in the thread. Can I say it? Okay, I will: DUH!
LOL. A very insightful and intelligent post, Weed. You wax eloquent real good. 
In the first six pages of the post Bunkermaster lists in the EL FAQ, there are at least forty different editors mentioned. As development on most of these has not halted, I fail to see why the thread would be invalid as a reference. While the feature sets and the "frontrunners" may well have changed, sticking any one of these into Google would shed some nice light on the subject.
Hey, OP, how about: Microsoft Script Editor, PHPEd, Homesite, Codepad, conText, UltraEdit, Editplus, BBEdit Lite, SourceEdit, PHP Edit, HTML-Kit, vi, AnyEdit, vim, Maguma (Studio) Light, Quanta, Bluefish, Dreamweaver MX (first mention on thread page 3, BTW), Jext, Emacs, Zend Studio, Notepad, Textpad, Quanta Plus, EmEditor, HotDog Pro, Pico, Nano, Editpad Pro, DOS edit (!!), Winsyntax, Wordpad, Jedit, FAR+Colorer, zendide, komodo, HAPedit, MED, Xemacs, LiveMotion ??
In the first six pages of the post Bunkermaster lists in the EL FAQ, there are at least forty different editors mentioned. As development on most of these has not halted, I fail to see why the thread would be invalid as a reference. While the feature sets and the "frontrunners" may well have changed, sticking any one of these into Google would shed some nice light on the subject.
I guess I would like to a see a fresh look at everything that exists now of what is and is not good. I do not want to have to google 40 editors to see how they might or might not have changed. I understand not wanting to see the same question asked over and over in a new thread, but if a thread is 3 years old and much of it is not relevant anymore I do not see the harm in starting a new thread where some new serious discussions are made on editors used now.
I feel some of you are over zealous when it comes to not wanting to start a thread that already exists.
The way some of you people treat new posters it is no wonder EL is relatively slow considering the traffic this forum gets. You scare them all away!
As for reading all the faqs first before you post, how many of you did that when you very first started? I am sure few of you did.
Two posts in a row??? What are you, a LOSER??? :p
In all seriousness, though, people help in different ways. dalecosp may not have the time to share his opinion about 40 different editors, so he pointed him to a resource that could help him. You, however, might choose to answer the question directly. Nothing wrong with either approach. The veterans here usually answer "Read the FAQ" not because they are annoyed, but because they are telling the person "here's where you can find the info you are looking for" rather than repeat their answers over and over.
It's no different than me stopping off at a gas station to ask directions to the freeway. They could hand me a map, or give me verbal directions (which they do 10 times a day). Or they could write down the directions and post it on their window, and refer me to that. Either way, I get my answer and I'm on my way to San Jose.
hey Buzz,
You are right. Sometimes though people here are not terribly nice to new people that come in and verge on condescending when replying to a post. They forget that they were once new where they were asking the 'newbie' questions and not reading the faq right away.
And I should of did an edit and combined my last two posts. I was being inefficient. Sue me! 
I'd rather just refer you to E's LART... more fun
