I havent used Zend, PHPEdit is the one I am using now, very featureful and cheaper than Zend.

I used to use Notepad+ but I found it was a bit of a pain when using UTF8 as it often opened documents using an incorrect encoding. It was a while ago though so maybe thats sorted now.

With regards to Joomla and things – I’m not a big fan of any open-source CMS. I’ve yet to find one that ‘makes sense to me’ and produces quality XHTML to the level I require. They always seem so (overly) complicated (even for a developer with 10 years under my belt).

As a company we use our own CMS built from the ground up – utilising PHP5 to create an object orientated framework that can be extended simply by extending the ‘core’ classes. Our own site http://www.acopic.co.uk is one example of it. It generates clean XHTML and utilises a clean URL stucture throughout. It means we can create content-managed sites in hours instead of days/weeks. It took about 3 months to build but our productivity has soared since.

Anyway – I’m sticking with Zend until a really kick-ass IDE comes along.

Guess some people will try anything!!

Selling AdWords. From the second hand. This means she was selling “sponsored links” but there were no sponsored links, only AdWords… So she was a trickster, got it? Con-artist, scammer, fourflusher? No idea how to explain it better Jeremy

Surprised you say that about Screem… I thought it was quite fast… I dont have a particularly quick pc either…

The only one I can remember for sure is permalinks which were not present last time I looked at Joomla… but I think there are a number of improvements you can make to the control of titles, tags etc.

Are you planning on using any existing repositories, such as some of the Pear packages, or do you consider those out moded too?

Afraid I dont really have any suggestions, Ive never done anything like this… your some way ahead of me!

One element you do not mention is security, i.e. filters, separation / identification / control of input etc.

It would be nice for example to be able to set at an application level whether you wish to consider the database to be internal to the application, or external (and therefore filtered), I think there are a few things you could play with in that area…

Basic stuff compared to the things you have already described!!

Notepad++ and Vim are basically text editors…

You want to see a fangled IDE play with Visual Studio its way ahead of any others Ive used…. its amazing what you can do with drag and drop these days!! The only problem is understanding what its gone off and done!!

By the way – Screem is really great but it seems this app works at a snails gallop on my desktop so I’m still a die-hard fan of standard notepad (currently gedit)