Good PHP Editor needed; any suggestions; specs what I need inside

From what I've seen on the web it looks very promising :)
Will have a better look in an hour or so, because I can't install applications on this computer.

Any other suggestions still welcome ofcourse!

you can add CVS to that list of disabled features as well

vim!

- syntax highlighting
:syn on

- multiple documents open at a time
ctrl-w s (splits the current window, allowing you to edit multiple files)

- "knowledge" of existing functions and their parameters (ie: sort of autocomplete)
ctrl-p (auto-completion based on all existing words in any open files)

- that "knowledge" should be expandable with my own functions
see above

I have tried most of them free and commerical I would say ZEND is the best. I paid for the full version with updates and it was totally worth it. It has gotten a lot better from old versions.  One thing is it is written in Java so I would recommend having a pretty good machine with a decent amount or RAM. PHPED is alo pretty good the old free one and the new Nusphere Commerical version. I would say that is seond best.

Onestar

My favourite since years is Homesite by Allaire, now sold by Macromedia.
Very simple interface, resource-frame with directory-tree and files in current directory (danamically refreshed), multiple open documents switched by simple tabs below the document-frame, can split the document-window to view different parts of the same script at the same time, simple buttons for most important functions (close, split document-window, word-wrap, line-numbers, special chars, fullscreen and block-indent).
Syntax highlighting is avail for PHP4 as well as HTML, Javascript and so on. Unfortunately no auto-completion for PHP (maybe someone implents it some day), but for HTML. Tag-validator for HTML/XHTML also included.
Homesite is often called "the professionals editor" and i love it. I've tried some others (for example UltraEdit), but every prog missed something.

He he, my fav is textpad.. plain, simple and extensible. Homesite is too HTML orientated (used it for ages) and all the PHP IDES wind me up cos of all the bells and whistles (get no work done cos I'm figuring out which buttons to press!)

I have to say that I usually use textpad as well, the only thing that I can criticise is that it gets stressed with trying to syntax highlight mixed PHP and HTML.  But I usually just use PHP highlighting as I can read HTML easier :)

Well said LornaJane, that is a pain is the ***. There is also no "function memory" but a good snippets tool

PHP Coder Pro has very few bells and whistles.  I like the highlighting, tabbing and simplicity of it.  I prefer notepad for almost all types of coding, but this is notepad with highlighting/bracket matching and tabbing.  That is about it.  You can configure other stuff, but I just haven't bothered, as it is not needed.

-kohashi

Thanks for all the suggestions, there are a lot of good ones out there.
I ended up liking Zend Studio the most.

Maguma and PHP-Ide were also good nominees to do the job I need to do, alltough the functionality is in there, I liked Zend better.


"Ed" btw, is also a nice editor, but just didn't make my requirements ;)

:)  I haven't tried zend to be honest... what makes it better in your opinion?

-kohashi

The way Zend responded to user actions was in my opinion better then PHP-Ide.

But the difference there is very personal and is probably different for every person.