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Blah Dreamweaver pwns as an IDE...
 
There are tons of extensions out there for PHP auto completion etc etc if you have a legit copy.
 
I never go into design view, and the project management pane is flawless.
 
Snippets management built in is ideal, alont with assetts like jQuery and also you can query a database from inside the proggy.
 
It has a ton of useful quick access features, like jumping to a css selector from within the HTML.
 
Not the best ftp built in granted, very slow for some reason but at least it can up and down single files or entire directories at once. If you are also not into hardcore svn, then it also has syncing for mutliple devs to work on same file at once.
 
It has other useful features like grids should you decide to use design view and yes you can turn off ALL code dreamweaver spits out and also how it auto corrects the way you markup code.
 
The preferences alone are bigger than most other "text-editors" as an all round package dreamweaver is the way, that and an install of WAMP or working directly on the server is seemless.
 
I have DW CS3, recently infact for the past two weeks I have used nothing but notepad ++ and yes it is a very nifty little text editor, but it fails in so many ways.
 
For instance, without going in and changing core files when you keyboard shortcut to preview in browser it loads it as file://this.php
 
Instead of localhost://this.php
 
Its ftp is crappy, literally almost useless. You can download from server and work on the file, but you cant open a local file and upload to the server from within notepad without a fair amount of clicks.
 
If i wanna do snippets, it is far from ideal also... You would be more successful using one of those key listening apps for if you type a phrase and key combination it will lay the tracks for you.
 
Really that is about as much as notepad++ has to offer, oh yeah it does have a very robust auto complete. Although the ones Dreamweaver covers out the box, (HTML, CSS, JS and some PHP) the way it auto completes is just better, the position it puts your cursor etc after each auto complete. It just feels faster to use.
 
Yeah i'm a DW fan boy, i've been using it since Studio 8. But i've tried a few.
 
If you are strictly a PHP guy get a PHP IDE like PHP Designer, or ZEND IDE...
 
Just my buttons worth but each to their own.