mikedee - 11:35 am on Apr 9, 2008 (gmt 0)

The php version of Eclipse is being sold by Zend now (as well as being free). Zend Studio 5 was good for PHP development, the only problem is it is a bit slow. I do not get on well with Eclipse at all even though a lot of people say it is good.

I would recommend Zend Studio 5 if you can still get it (its not free) - otherwise Quanta used to be good but a bit basic for pure php. Zend is the most comparable to VS (including the fact it is not free), it also has a very reasonable license though which allows you to install a copy on every computer you have access to.

KDE4 has Krita which is more like Photoshop than Gimp, and it has KDevelop too but the PHP support is not very good for that.

P.S. Take a look at sshfs - it is invaluable if you are working on remote Linux servers.