I have acquired NuSphere PhpEd this week-end. I should have got this a long time ago. But frankly it really doesn't compare to Visual Studio from microsoft. First because after 2 days it looks like a little difficult to use. My web host doesn't let me access to the /home and /usr and you need it to configure. Sure I will probably have my web host to cooperate in instaling what it s needed to run the debugger but I miss my cozy development environment. But at first sight different other feature like code navigator looks like interesting. You will still need to "find in files" a lot to get through the work but it alleviate  to work with code using global declaration problem. I give you more insight next...