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Zend Studio review

Produced in the heart of PHP country, from whence comes the core of the PHP runtime (the Zend engine), Zend Technologies' Zend Studio IDE is part of a collection of PHP-related products that includes Zend Server, Zend Platform, and others. Zend Studio is built atop the Eclipse IDE.
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WaterProof Software PHPEdit

In addition to the basic capabilities of project management, intelligent editing, and debugging, PHPEdit includes support for the Symfony MVC (model view controller) PHP framework, the free event-driven Web application framework Prado, and the open source CMS eZ Publish. PHPEdit furnishes all the editing fundamentals: syntax highlighting, Code Insight (code completion), live syntax checking, and code hints.
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NuSphere PhpED

PhpED, available from NuSphere, runs only on Windows, though NuSphere claims that you can execute the IDE on Mac or Linux using the Wine emulator.
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NetBeans IDE review

NetBeans is a free, multilanguage IDE available from NetBeans.org. Though NetBeans began life as a Java IDE, versions exist for Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Groovy, C/C++, and PHP.
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MPSoftware phpDesigner 7 review

MPSoftware's phpDesigner is only available for Windows. This limitation is understandable, given that it is the product of a one-man micro-ISV: Michael Pham, founder, owner, and engineering department for Denmark-based MPSoftware.
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Eclipse PDT review

There are numerous IDEs based on Eclipse, and countless programming language projects have been crafted in Eclipse IDEs. For PHP development, the Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools) project is the place to visit.
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CodeLobster review

The CodeLobster PHP Edition IDE, available from CodeLobster Software, is perhaps the best named product in this roundup. Registration for the IDE is free, but its half-dozen plug-ins are not.
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ActiveState Komodo review

ActiveState's Komodo is not only a PHP IDE, but a multilanguage development environment that can also handle Perl, Ruby, Python, Tcl, and others. In addition, Komodo is OS agnostic; it can run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Licensing is by user, so a single licence allows you to execute the IDE on multiple platforms. We tested the Windows version of Komodo 5.2. You can download a 21-day trial edition from the ActiveState Website.
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Adobe Flex 4 SDK beta review

Adobe has shrunk the distance between design and development with its latest batch of RIA tools: Adobe Flex 4 SDK, Adobe Flash Builder 4 (the Flex Builder IDE renamed), and Adobe Flash Catalyst, all recently made available in public beta.
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Microsoft Silverlight 3 review

Microsoft Silverlight 3, Microsoft's much-enhanced rich internet application platform runs on Windows or Mac desktops, online or offline
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