Davey Shafik has a new post over on his weblog today of a mini-review of TruStudio 1.0RC1, a freely available IDE that plays nice with PHP (among other languages).

In his review, he talks about Eclipse and how the TruStudio IDE integrates itself with it, including some of the faults and annoyances that he found within.

My main issue with TruStudio is that is ships with PHP 5.0.2 but its support for it seems to be mostly coincidence. It certainly does not support the instanceof operator. I know that even PHP4's highlight_* functions will mostly correctly highlight PHP5 code. It does however know that a "break;" after a "throw" in a "select" cannot be reached. So maybe they just missed out instanceof? who knows - the website says nothing of which version of PHP it supports. [...] There is also several bugs, codeassist just doesn't work for me.

Having said all these negative points, it is a fairly nice IDE overall, and assuming these bugs get fixed it will be one of the better open source IDEs out there - and it supports Python too.

I did a review of this little piece of software a while back for PHP Maagzine and my findings were about the same. I really wasn't all that impressed with this IDE - not nearly enough to convince me that I needed to use it for everyday coding...