I would love to however I run Mac OS X as my primary operating system. It will have to wait until next week sometime when I am home and can run it under my Virtual Machine.

Now since I run OS X full time I will not use the IDE no matter how good it is, however I will review the software and write up a review on the site.

Please, review also new free very powerfull PHP IDE – http:/www.codelobster.com

Thanks.
Stas.

http://josephcrawford.com/?s=Coda

and honostly 1st is Phped and second is Zend (for slow prob and some code completion) and i know the choosing thing is all personal and every one have a deferent idea, so do NOT blame me on this if u are disagree with me.
for me code completion is a big deal because im very new in PHP and i need to see each property i use in any object.
just wanted to show some of my experience so maybe some day helpful for someone

Thanks for the tip on PDT. Yea SMB over VPN was slow at first but then my employer got a fast pipe in the offices so it was not slow at all. However the way that Eclipse handles remotely mounted volumes is the issue. The team knows about the issue as I submitted a bug but I am not sure when or if they are working on a fix for it.

Man… SMB mounted over a VPN sounds rough. I wonder if it would be better to pull all the files to a local drive and then have an rsync script firing off all the time to send your updates to the drive over the VPN.

You should check out the Zend Eclipse plugins too: http://www.zend.com/pdt

Here’s a direct link to the latest version.

It’s not going to help though with the problem where Eclipse wants to traverse all your files to index it and check for errors/todos.

Thanks for asking that it seems I should clarify. I am working over a VPN at home and I have to mount my files from an SMB mounted drive. Between the 3 editors above the only one that will work well for me is Zend.

Eclipse does not have the proper support for SMB mounted volumes so they are very slow to read and write. As for the local projects/files Eclipse worked fine. It just did not work for my situation since all of my files were on the remotely mounted drive.

I hope it does not mean for most of my files, since my project files are all less than 15k, and we use SVN and development server in the lan itself.

I have not yet tried using any of the IDE’s, since I was quite happy doing my edits using the Bluefish editor, which is ofcourse not an IDE, but just an editor.

Just started my download of the eclipse for Windows.. Will do the same for linux when I get back home.