EnginSite Editor: A Fully Loaded PHP IDE on the Cheap
Suddenly, the marketplace for PHP IDEs is headed into second gear. We stumbled across a little-known offering from a small German software company and discovered a darn good IDE at an excellent price point.
by Laurence Moroney
April 7, 2005
ntil recently I did most of my PHP development using DreamWeaver or Notepad. I wasn't happy with most IDEs for developing PHP applications. In my opinion, the best IDEs for software development were, and still are, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET and BEA Weblogic Workshop. In the PHP world, there just wasn't anything that was in the same league—not until the arrival of the Zend Studio, which I reviewed for DevX in January.
Now a new, low-cost alternative has entered the scene: EnginSite Editor for PHP, from German software company Luckasoft (http://luckasoft.com/). For $79.95, Luckasoft offers a full-fledged IDE and debugger for PHP with many of the bells and whistles that you'd expect from an enterprise-class development tool.
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ntil recently I did most of my PHP development using DreamWeaver or Notepad. I wasn't happy with most IDEs for developing PHP applications. In my opinion, the best IDEs for software development were, and still are, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET and BEA Weblogic Workshop. In the PHP world, there just wasn't anything that was in the same league—not until the arrival of the Zend Studio, which I 
