Which code editing environment (IDE) to use while developing codeigniter

[eluser]brianw1975[/eluser]
Welcome to the forums!

I think I can safely say that the best IDE for CodeIgniter is the one you are most familiar with.

Every IDE out there will have it's good features and bad features. It may take you time to find an IDE that you are most comfortable with.

Personally, I have several IDEs installed on my computer: Zend 5.5.1 and Zend 6.1 and very soon I will have Dreamweaver CS and NetBeans. My reasons are simple: Dreamweaver has better code completion for HTML & CSS than Zend does when it comes to HTML. Zend handles PHP better than Dreamweaver. Soon I will be plunging into learning Java, thus the reason for netbeans -- which also supports PHP.

So like I said, use the one you are most familiar with. If you are new to PHP and/or programming and don't have any experience with the editors here is a review of 7 of the "most popular" IDE review

Note that the above article is based around windows and does not have any mac software; but most of the java based IDEs work on the mac also.

A lot of mac programmers really like Coda and of course there is the ever popular TextMate.

Good Luck!