Hey Folks...
This is just a fantastic project to see happening. I've been coding PHP professionally for 8 years and in that time I've struggled to find the perfect IDE, similar to what Visual Studio is to ASP/.NET development.
I've tried so many editors during that time but for many years I used Homesite. Recently have found myself using EditPlus because of the integrated FTP, and being able to work on files remotely.
Obviously this project has some fundamental planning to go before this, but I would like to make the suggestion to create an extremely detailed feature list. I think the way to go would be for everyone involved to pick the eyes out of their favourite editors/IDEs and make suggestions of valuable features. Things like...
- Homesite's table wizard. I've still never seen anything like, or anything as good as it.
- Integrated features similar to Beyond Compare.
- Project management that allows you to define production files, a staging/test server and a live server.
- Good regular expression Search & Replace, similar to Edit Plus except Edit Plus' regular expressions don't seem to work to standards. I've found a couple of instances with simple regular expressions that it just doesn't match, still scratching my head about it.
- Some Zend Studio features, except being slow beyond comparison.
Anyway, just some ideas, I really look forward to seeing this project move forward!
Cheers.