Don't pay for Zend Development Environment ...

[krakjoe]

WINDOWS: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/pdt/downloads/drops/R20070917/all-in-one/pdt-all-in-one-1.0-R20070917-win32.zip
LINUX: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/pdt/downloads/drops/R20070917/all-in-one/pdt-all-in-one-1.0-R20070917-linux-gtk.tar.gz
MAC: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/pdt/downloads/drops/R20070917/all-in-one/pdt-all-in-one-1.0-R20070917-macosx-carbon.tar.gz

ZDE is based on eclipse, and this is free as eclipse is opensource .... sure it doesn't have all the features of the zend customized version, but the base is there ( that is, the features you actually use ) ....

[yashved]

What exactly is Zend Development Environment?

[krakjoe]

a php IDE that costs hundreds of dollars ... now they call it Zend Studio ...

http://zend.com/en/store/software/studio/ - it's $254 a year ...

[themoose]

Not sure why but I think I'll always prefer notepad.. (2). Gonna give it a go anyway though.

edit:
yeah, I don't know why but I don't think I'll ever be able to get used to it. Back to notepad it is.

[krakjoe]

most of the time I too will write in whatever is open, but if anyone is considering buying zend studio they are dumb ...

it does have some good features, the unix version seems a bit buggy to me, I get some strange errors when editing css files, but it is clever though, it can even syntax check html documents, and has a sort of itellisense for functions and classes, also the php explorer is a nice feature for finding out where functions or constants are defined in large projects too ...

I'll use it for big stuff for sure ....