If you NEED (notice I said NEED, not WANT) an IDE to work with PHP (or pretty much any other programming language), you need to seriously question your ability to do development work. I make my new developers spend 3 months WITHOUT an IDE to learn what they're doing -- without relying on intellisense, auto-generated boilerplate code, and hid-away compiler settings.
After those three months, they are truly masters of their language.
(And any of my Devs can hop on an SSH connection on their MOBILE PHONES and fix most immediate outages when it's related to code or MySQL database issues. The command line is an essential tool not to be overlooked in today's "Drag-and-Drop" world.)
If you NEED (notice I said NEED, not WANT) an IDE to work with PHP (or pretty much any other programming language), you need to seriously question your ability to do development work. I make my new developers spend 3 months WITHOUT an IDE to learn what they're doing -- without relying on intellisense, auto-generated boilerplate code, and hid-away compiler settings.
After those three months, they are truly masters of their language.
(And any of my Devs can hop on an SSH connection on their MOBILE PHONES and fix most immediate outages when it's related to code or MySQL database issues. The command line is an essential tool not to be overlooked in today's "Drag-and-Drop" world.)