[eluser]Myles Wakeham[/eluser]
A very interesting post. I believe that no one IDE will do it all for web development. I find Zend Studio (not the Eclipse version) the best editor for CI PHP code because I like the layout of the hundreds and hundreds of PHP files I tend to create, and the Code Folding facilities in there. But I'm yet to work out how I can use it for debugging, so its really just a big editing suite for me.
I use Dreamweaver CS3 for WYSIWYG editing of DHTML/CSS, etc. I use Smarty tags with CI so its easy to incorporate that in Dreamweaver and keep the UI distinct from the PHP code as much as I can.
Then as for the database, we use Firebird SQL for all of our database work so I rely on IBExpert for that. I suspect that any database driven website is going to need a good DB Admin tool for this, so factoring one of these into the equation is probably a good idea too.
Again, no one IDE will do it all.
Myles
