BBEdit

Before I call the BBedit code, I trim the extension and the ". ...

That BBEdit for $99 sounds much better than $199. Thanks for the tip. Oh and elander, NVU is not good for me. It doesn't do PHP and it's built in FTP function has major issues. I'll be looking for NVU 2 though. ;) I think I may be going with skEdit. Well that's what I'm testing now and it seems quite nice. :)

That's interesting...I'd definitely pay $99 for it. I made my previous employer pay the full price for it (in my name, so I could keep it :D ).

BBEdit's a great app, in answer to someone's previous post, because it's transparent, fast, extensible, smart as shit, has regex search-and-replace, integrates with CVS/Subversion, understands sites, folders, and projects as distinct aggregative entities, and is just generally addictive after you've used it for a while (in my case, ten years). You code by hand, but that...

I don't know of any all-in-one application development platforms such as this; for a good an evolving IDE, see the PHP plugin for Eclipse. I develop in PHP almost every day, and am happy with coding by hand with BBEdit. But the Eclipse plugin, when it matures, is going to be really nice.

Download TextWrangler, launch it, close it, buy BBEdit for 99 USD. Just do it, don't talk about how "stupid" it is that they also offer BBEdit for 199, just take it for 99 and be glad. ...

I guess I still don't understand... what makes BBEdit so special? ...

BBEdit gets rave reviews from my web design buddies who eschew Dreamweaver as not a true HTMl editor, and it's only $199 or less: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

Yup, probably so. Professional and iWeb aren't proper associations as of yet (maybe this'll change in the future). BBEdit is my choice in the purist category, Dreamweaver in the non-purist category.

Its not cheap, but I prefer BBEdit. If they ever figure out a decent code completion system (has none currently) it'll be a no brainer.