With a bit of time on his hands (freelancing), Peter Bowyer has begun a series where he's going through some of the PHP IDEs out there and posting his reviews of each.

Now the summer's come and things are slack I'm testing out PHP IDEs. I'm after something to make life that little bit easier...

I have a couple of solid criteria which any editor I use must measure up against: It must offer code insight to files within PHP's include_path (eg PEAR libraries) and I would really like debugging which can be built into the server. Another criteria for me is the cost.

As of this post, he has four parts of his reviews posted, having gone over PHPEdit, EnginSite Editor, Maguma Workbench, PHP Expert Editor, Rapid PHP 2005, and Zend Studio. Check it out and keep looking back in as he continues his review process...