PHP Designer 2008 Professional v6.0.2.0



PHP Designer 2008 Professional is a powerful PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment) / PHP editor for both beginners and professional developers that enhances the process of editing, analyzing and publishing applications and websites powered by PHP and other web languages.

Designed to boost your productivity and simplify complex coding projects through intelligent set of editing tools that includes full support for PHP 5.2, work with any PHP framework, syntax highlighters, intelligent nested code completion and code tip that are displayed as you type, so you do not need to look into documentation to see classes and function attributes, project manager, code snippets, the large built-in code-libraries, highlights (un)matching brackets and tags and numerous tools and wizards to speed of your development.

What’s new in v Version 6.0.2:
- New. Improved the single line uncomment feature, no need to select a comment in order to uncomment it
- New. Remove single line comment, no need to select a comment in order to remove it
- New. Added find next/previous buttons to the search toolbar
- New. Text file differencing and merging tool (TextDiff)
- New. Support for changing the default text file differencing and merging tool
- New. Support for hide the statusbar (view > gui)
- New. The position of the search/replace dialog is now saved
- New. Goto next/previous bookmark
- New. Remove the dim highlighting as default in the intelligent highlighting
- New. Added option to disable the PHP syntax colouring in HTML, CSS and JS
- New. Added the SVN commands in the editor menu
- New. Option to disable the automatic insert of * in phpDocumentor comments
- New. Import/export syntax highlighters
- New. Access the folder were syntax highlighters are located
- New. Added an empty char in empty * inside phpDocumentor comments
- New. Added new option to the code completion: Keep existing text
- New. Added new option to the code completion: Add close brace when keeping existing text
- New. Support for PHP magic methods in the code completion for PHP
- New. New code completion for inside phpDocumentor comments with phpDocumentor tags
- New. Support for open multiple files in select project files
- New. Added a new extra silent mode for PHP syntax check
- New. Added new tags for templates: [$project] and [$filename]
- Fixed. Xdebug fatal error: Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window
- Fixed. Better cleanup of temporarily files when using the HTML preview
- Fixed. Insert of * in phpDocumentor comments now respect indention
- Fixed. Save visible panels position on start up
- Fixed. Code completion on PHP variables
- Fixed. Added a label that says Xdebug do not work together with the Zend Optimizer
- Fixed. Small re-arrange of the preferences dialog
- Fixed. Removed the shortcuts for jump history
- Fixed. Convert special chars to HTML (å)
- Fixed. No beep when pressing esc in dialogs
- Fixed. Tab/focus in the project/ftp manager
- Minor fixes and enchantments

OS: Windows® XP/XP2/Vista

Home Page: http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php

The program looks amazing, especially for somoene like me who has no programming skills at all. But from the screen shot it doesn't look as easy as they make it seem. Has any beginners tried out this program before?