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Originally Posted by Zachery

IIRC Kier uses Alier(sp?) Homesite. before it became dreamweaver, which is atad differnt.

You are right, Zach... my mistake.

So, what your secret weapons -- your favorite development tools? What operating system do you use most and why?

My 'essential' software arsenal consists of Macromedia/Allaire Homesite for writing HTML and PHP, with a bit of Textpad thrown in for its block-selection mode and advanced regular expression search facilities.

I have tried a lot of the PHP-dedicated IDE solutions out there, such as the Zend Studio, but at the moment they feel rather immature and while some of the functionality is very nice (function/variable name completion etc.) the lack of customisability and flexibility keeps sending me back to Homesite. Homesite has a raft of functionality built in, and I can add my own by writing 'ActionScripts' in Javascript etc.