A coworker of mine has been working on a ajax enabled regex tool which lets you evaluate regex expressions in several languages (including PHP PCRE and PHP POSIX) with instant results. You can choose which functions to use, such as match, match all, replace, split etc. It also offers some basic help and hints. It’s really handy when working on those painful expressions.

You can check it out at http://regex.larsolavtorvik.com/. Stop by his blog as well.

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The results for the 2007 PHP-IDE polls are ready. They are available here. The top three are:

1. Eclipse (at 30%)

2. Simple editors (at 26%)

3. Zend (at 25%, my favorite)

I see that Komodo is at only 3% which is a bit surprising. I plan on evaluating that when I get the time. The extension support there is supposed to be as good as Firefox.