OK, I've officially made the switch from Dreamweaver to [url=http://www.eclipse.org]Eclipse[/url]. Not only is it a free alternative, but the extensions you can get for web development are out of this world! It supports SVN repositories to allow versioning of your apps. Besides that, you can install xdebug in your PHP installation, and it actually allows you to manually step through your code and debug like you would in a compiler for other languages. One other huge feature to me is the fact that it takes advantage of PHPDoc syntax and actually creates an ongoing outline of your entire application (all classes, functions and includes!). Very, very cool software. Also, if you're into Perl or Python for writing up any CGI scripts or other comparable sister code for your PHP, Eclipse has plugins that handle all your needs for those languages, too. Of course, it handles Java since that was it was made for, but I don't do any Java development on there. Very, very nice toolset. The [url=http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/]Weeb Tools Platform[/url] would be the best spot to start for people in here, most likely.
