Netbeans

A couple months ago I felt it was time to search for a real IDE to use with PHP. Up until then I had just been using Textmate on my Mac to edit my projects but having used Visual Studio for my job for so long i had become rather spoiled and I wanted proper code completion, or "intellisense" in the Microsoft vernacular. Netbeans to the rescue.

Why did i pick Netbeans for my main PHP IDE?

• Full code completion, based on PHPDoc comments and function and class definitions
• Completely integrated debugging using XDebug
• Solid project management
• Great integrated SVN client
• Code Templates