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[ophir prusak]

Mark,

You made a very good point.
Creating HTML vs creating PHP code.
There isn't a single tool that truly shines when doing both the "back 
end" coding (PHP code) and the "front end" HTML code.
Back to the original question - "what is the best dev enviroment", this 
is a very big consideration.

When I create a brand new page (or a new design), I first design it in 
something other than Zend Studio.
Only when I'm doing the PHP coding do I use Zend Studio.
I also use smarty templates which allows me to associate .php files with 
Zend studio and .tpl files with my HTML editor :)

Ophir


Mark Armendariz wrote:

>I've been using ProFont for at least a year now, which I TRULY enjoy using,
>both on my laptop and desktop with about every app I use for coding...
>http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/
>
>As far as IDEs, I enjoy using Zend Studio for it's PHP prowess (and
>debugging is fantastic when the client's dev server supports it, which my
>server does not), but hand coding HTML is a real pain in Zend in comparison
>to Dreamweaver MX and HomeSite.  The code completion and color coding in
>both tools for html is phenomenal, and customizable, which is great for tag
>based template systems (I generally use patTemplate).
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