I write PHP in Dreamweaver – it has a vague form of intellisense and for web development it has just everything you need. It’ll write PHP for you if you want it to – just need to learn about database connections, recordsets and such (not difficult). You can make pretty sophisticated sites using in-built Dreamweaver tools and there are a load of extensions available for pretty much anything. I’ve produced complex sites using just Dreamweaver (starting to sound like an Adobe salesman!)
Not sure if you know, but if you’re running Windows you need to configure Internet Information Services to run PHP on your own computer, and if you’re integrating a database it’s best to use MySQL. Apologies if you know this…if you don’t there’s a load of info on the web on how to set it all up.
Text editors are great if you know the syntax – I use Editplus for quick editing.
Good luck 🙂
