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    As I posted in another topic - which is the best IDE for PHP for Macs? Suggestions or ideas?

      Billy Koch
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      Depends on your working style. I prefer a simple programmer’s text editor; I use Smultron at the moment. I was particularly fond of SubEthaEdit which has a nice remote collaborative feature, but they’re not free any more and I’m cheap. I think TextMate is probably one of the most popular of these, though.

      However for more complicated setups, there’s Eclipse, and there’s Rapidweaver. I’ve set up Eclipse with php and svn a couple of times, but it’s just more than I ever use.
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        I use Eclipse and TextMate personally; though I recently upgraded to the latest Eclipse (3.5.0) and switched from PHPEclipse to PDT to give PDT another chance (PHPEclipse is a truly open, open-source PHP plugin, while PDT is controlled by Zend/IBM despite claiming to be open-source). Once you get used to developing in Eclipse (in any object-oriented language at least) you will not believe the productivity you can achieve with it compared to using a text editor that has no knowledge of code structure, available classes and functions, etc.