I used to use Dreamweaver 8 (in code view, not wysiwyg mode of course) until a few years ago. Since then I've dabbled in other text editors.

But recently I've heard a few people singing CS5 DW's praises, saying its on a par with Zend Eclipse and Netbeans as an IDE. What I really like the sound of is that it comes with an SVN client built in .

The most basic requirements are syntax error highlighting and code hinting. I dont often work on anything big enough to demand project file organization but I guess that might be handy one day.

Anyone got any opinions on how DW stacks up purely as a PHP code editor?

Im using cs5 dw.
Tell you the truth for me its like any kind of editor out there. Nothing special about it. If you know how to write then you'll be satisfied with notepad++.

Two things i dont like about dw, no lines betwean functions like in notepadd++:

if(...) {
|     xxxxxx
|     xxxxxx
|     xxxxxx
}

Second thing, sometimes when i shrink lines and later reopen that file, it's pure luck if they are still shrinked, and i often get message that lines have been changed and if i want to expand them so i can see the changes

Now imagine how frustrating that can be when i have a functions file with 900 lines