Editor played very important role in Development.Editor makes easy and fast development of application.The editor provide flexibility to the developer to manage the many project under single umbrella.There are alot of available editors in PHP,There are some editors are open source and some are paid.
Dreamweaver
Its very full featured IDE for developer as well as designers.Its product of Adobe.It has many features like built in code view,design view, syntex highlighting and synyex autocomplete.
NetBeans IDE
NetBeans IDE is free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. All the tools needed to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java platform, as well as with C/C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy.
Eclipse
Eclipse is mostly used for software development.Its multilingual IDE with great exntentible plugin.Its developed on java plateform.Its available for all development plate form with all major languages.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is another powerfull editor that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size.
Zend Studio
Zend Studio is the only Integrated Development Environment (PHP IDE) available for professional developers providing the capabilities needed to develop business applications. it features like refactoring, code generation, code assist and semantic analysis combine to enable rapid application development on both the server side (in PHP) and the browser side (in JavaScript). Zend Studio also makes it simple to develop in a production-like environment by integrating with VMware Workstation for running and debugging PHP applications.
Zend Studio also support for source configuration management (Git, GitHub, CVS, SVN) and shared project settings. These features help improve collaboration between project members.
PHP EDIT
PHPEdit is the best PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment) on the market, With help of this the developer can create dynamic and professional websites more easily and efficiently.
PHPEdit has been designed to maximize developers’ productivity helping you to code faster, to debug PHP and test your projects, as well as to maximize project management within your IT team.
Its provide free only trial version.
Aptana
Aptana is a free IDE ,Aptana build web applications quickly and easily using the industry’s leading web application IDE. Its also available as an Eclipse plugin.It has built-in support for popular libraries like jQuery, MooTools, and Prototype.
Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.
Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.Its released under the GNU GPL licence.
How about phpDesigner, it only runs on windows, but IMO it’s the best,
and don’t forget Sublime Text 2, runs on windows, linux, and mac.
Both mentioned are lightning fast editor and full-featured but not bloated IDE.
And where’s PHPStorm, one of the best PHP-IDE’s? How can you miss that?
+1 for PHPStorm
You forgot phpdesigner
Yeah, second vote for PhpStorm. Absolutely the best, hands down, thread over.
Sublime Text 2 all the way. There really is no editor faster, for any language. I use it for all my coding in various languages.