What Is the Best Ide For PHP

What is the best IDE for PHP?

Are you sure you're looking for an IDE? The features you're describing, along with the impression of being too complicated that you got from e.g. Aptana, suggest that perhaps all you really want is a good editor with syntax highlighting and integration with some common workflow tools. For this, there are tons of options.

I've used jEdit on several platforms successfully, and that alone puts it above most of the rest (many of the IDEs are cross-platform too, but Aptana and anything Eclipse-based is going to be pretty heavy-weight, if full-featured). jEdit has ready-made plugins for everything on your list, and syntax highlighting for a wide range of languages. You can also bring up a shell in the bottom of your window, invoke scripts from within the editor, and so forth. It's not perfect (the UI is better than most Java UIs, but not perfect yet I don't think), but I've had good luck with it, and it'll be a hell of a lot simpler than Aptana/Eclipse.

That said, I do like Aptana quite a bit for web development, it does a lot of the grunt work for you once you're over the learning curve.

Best IDE for PHP, preferably support version control

Don't know if it's the best IDE but I find Eclipse with PHP support quite good. And it also has plugins for all versioning systems you need: CVS, SVN, Mercurial, GIT, you name it.

PHP IDE with best code completion?

I have found that Netbeans has better code completion than Aptana. When I was working with codeigniter, Netbeans would code complete for my static methods in models where Aptana wouldn't.

Since my posting of this, JetBrains has released PHPStorm and has your rapid fire intellisense, as well as even better type hinting. It is absolutely superior to all others IMHO. I've been using EAP 2.0 for several months now for free.

Which is the best PHP editor for Windows?

I think for just working with PHP, Aptana does a good job because 1.) it's also integrated with HTML and Javascript, which in web development you also work a good deal with, and 2.) because it benefits from the plugin architecture of Eclipse, so you can use a lot of the stuff that people have developed for Eclipse (like version control plugins, etc.).

It's also not a Java IDE -- at the end of the day, Eclipse or NetBeans will always feel a bit funny because, to them, PHP isn't first priority, it's Java. Aptana is focused on web development, so it feels a bit more like PHP is a first class citizen.

Komodo Edit is good if you don't require major IDE functionality (debugging, version control, etc.), but if you're considering that you might as well also look at some of the more famous editors like emacs.

Best editor/IDE(?) for Javascript / PHP development

Not sure about it being the Visual Studio for PHP but Netbeans is easily the best IDE for PHP i've used.

What is the best IDE and source version control tool for PHP?

What I am using for php development:

Wamp (Apache PHP(5.26 + 5.3+) and Mysql
Navicat lite instead of Phpmyadmin
Eclipse PDT (Helios) with Spket plugins
TortoiseSVN
Notepad++
Total Commander
Firefox (Firebug, FirePHP, FireCookie)