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[ophir prusak]

Sheesh,

It hasn't even been 24 hours and there are already about 30 replies to 
this question.
I'm usually more of a lurker but thought I could provide some clarity.

You ask what the "best" dev environment is, but the term best has 
different meanings to different people.
That's why you received so many answers :)

You might want to elaborate on what features are important to you.

Price not being an issue, I don't think you'll find any IDE more feature 
rich then Zend Studio.
Zend Studio is much more than an editor, especially when you run the 
Zend Studio Server component.
This allows you to do things like trace/debug your PHP code ON THE 
SERVER. I don't remember the details but nyphp members can get a discount.

If you're looking for something "lighter", there are numerous text 
editors which I'm sure you'll be happier with such as UltraEdit, TextPad 
or even Emacs or VIM :)

On the side of what browser to use, personally I shoot for IE 5 and up 
since I know that's what about 95% of my users use.




EZ wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I wanted to solicit your thoughts and opinions on what you think is the
>best development environment for PHP and why you think this. I
>personally use Dreamweaver to code and test with Firefox (no error and
>output looks like it should? Must be error free. ;-)  ). Part of this is
>because my sites are remotely hosted and I don't run LAMP at home (yet).
>I recognize there are probably better ways and that it is time to start
>using a "real" environment.
>
>Thanks in advance for your opinons!
>
>EZ
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