Hi everyone!

For those of you who have never heard of it, I've found an EXCELLENT alternative to Dreamweaver!!! It's called aptana (www.aptana.com) and I've only played with it for a little while, but so far it has everything I was looking for and more, particularily code completion! There is a Pro version also which is a fraction of the cost of Dreamweaver, but I would say that most of us (alot of us?) could get away with the free version Hope this changes some peoples lives like it has mine!

That does look like a really good editor. I remember hearing about it quite a while back actually and totally forgot.

PC, Mac and Linux version ... that's quite impressive. And 99$ is pretty cheap too.

Nice find!

It looks alright but from the php side its not doing anything groundbreaking. Nothing that most code editors can't do already. I am still waiting for a decent php editor that can recognise objects. For example. Something that will do the following.

File 1 contains class Greeting and the functions hello, hi, hey and yo.

File 2 includes File 1 at the beginning, the program should recognise this. When I have created a new instance of the class and type:

Greeting->

A drop down should appear of my various function choices as well as the parameters that the custom functiont takes.

I would drop Coda for a Mac compatible program with these features.

I have what you want HERE!
It is the most excellent tools that I have ever use!

You 'almost' have what I want. The program also has to be mac compatible

Back on topic, I think the dreamweaver is overpriced and in todays web design industry it is becoming irrelvant. If you look at job descriptions lots are coming in wanting experience in LAMP environments. While maybe 4 years ago Dreamweaver was a skill asked for in many job adds nowadays it isn't.

If you can save £400 or whatever it is then do it. Sure Dreamweaver has ftp but there is far better ftp software. It has a design view but that is far from perfect. It has auto-completion.. nowadays what coding editor doesn't?

What is left that Dreamweaver offers? Templates? Does any seasoned developer use these?

You should look at the Zend Development platform...

It has as you type syntax and parse checking and when you are working with objects, it uses your own code and your own comments (in phpDocumentor format) to give code completion hints based off your own classes.

I went to that link you gave me but I couldn't understand what it is?
What exactly Zend Development Platform do?

Zend Studio -- sorry, got the name wrong above.

It's not free, but if you can afford it, it is the best PHP IDE I have ever used.

Looks interesting. I will be sure to check it out.

Thanks Moonlilly! Quite frankly, I'm tired of ridiculous upgrade fees as well! Everything to do with adobe has crazy prices.

I'm very tempted to try this!

Downloading (Trial Version) at the moment....
Look's promising mate
Thanks...

I'm definately using it for my next site to give it a proper test run. I'm just glad I got to help a few people, instead of always being the one that's helped! LOL