Ajoy, Well imho Zend Studio is the best Editor as it allows you to debug in the editor it also has an analyze function which gives you some info which can help optimize your code. It's not perfect but it's alot better then dreamweaver as it allows for connection with version control such as subversion. Which dreamweaver is pretty poor at. I havn't tried dreamweaver cs3 but i have 8 and it takes alot of cpu and ram up, where as zend is very light. Also zend studio is made by the "php company" so you can tie it in with zend platform (optimization reports on your code) As for a framework again there are various ones, i've never been a huge fan of them as I have my own way of doing things by using the bare minimum as to save resources but if you wanna try one there is again a Zend Framework - which they claim is the best and most updated, highest security etc and also there is the obvious ones Cake PHP etc. Just don't use smarty what ever you do ;) Tom ajoy77.dutta wrote: > > Hello Friends, > Can anybody plz tell me which is the best ( robust / good to debug > etc.. ) PHP Editor for making large applications (what abt Dreamweaver > CS3 ? )and another thing is that which is the best PHP framework > suitable for robust PHP application development ? > plz help. > > Warm Regards > Ajoy Dutta > >