To all php gurus out there
I ve been coding php with my bare hands interweaving it with html and as the code gets longer it get less easy to manage, so could anyone tell me whats the best php building environment in the market ...comercial and opeon source

I've been using quanta for 2 years now and haven't found a better program. On the other hand, you could take a look at Zend, it is said that that's the best software for PHP developement.

What about windows specific software ?

Windows??
I believe I used source-edit, good old days..

Hello,

I am using Textpad to edit php and c++ files. Accessing a linux server via samba. I usually don't mixed my php code with html. This tend to make my code readable in the long run since it does not contain html codes. The html file is a separate work and I am using Phplib package to plugin the data and variables into the html file. Very neat for an Model-View-Controller type of framework

Syn text editor.
http://syn.sourceforge.net/

I really like this program. It is open source and includes a ftp client which is so very very useful.
I do all my script language coding on this application (if using windows). Its got syntax schemes for most of the languages I'v needed to use it for.

This is just a text editor (you can't draw your HTML content with this program).

PS. When I code PHP I leave my HTML inside the PHP. If I have PHP doing somthing more complicated than normal then I put that code inside a file of php functions and use the include() function to link the function files to my code. Just leaving the easy to follow PHP and HTML (+CSS) in the main document. That way my files dont get too long and I get some nice reusable collections of functions to use.