I am sick of updating Eclipse all the time and banging my head against the wall dealing with the dependencies between projects. I am looking for a good PHP-specific IDE. Any recommendations? Free is great, but I am willing to pay a small amount for something that is much better.

SVN integration is very useful.
FTP support is a must.

I use two

Nusphere PHPED - initial cost is about $ 200, but it is outstanding and unlike ZEND, it is not written in JAVA (IMO slows down windows)

phpDesigner - This is what I use everyday. It has all the functions you want and is cheap. It is around $ 60, but has a trial that lasts 30 days.

If you want to try either, contact me via email

Scott have you tried either of these?

Hey Mike, now that you have your mac you should check out:
Panic - Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X

I use PHPEd on Wndows and Aptana on MAC

Both I find are certainly worth the money.

Barry thanks for joining the site, I appreciate it very much

I too use phped all the time now, I did not know that it had a built in FTP solution


~Mike

Hi Mike,

Yes it has quite a few hidden features:

CTRL + Shift + S ( Save and Upload ) is one of my favorites.

I also have a coupe of ruby Scripts that create commonly used tasks.

Barry