Developing tools for this site on windows

On the rare occasions I needed to develop php in a windows environment, I got myself a XAMPP and edited the php files in notepad.

Now I'm looking for "more advanced" tools to do it.

Features that would be nice:

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[*]Syntax highlighting
[*]Code Assistance/IntelliSense/Whatever it is called, where the IDE helps to autocomplete commands, underlines errors, helps with available methods.
[*]Help with build/deploy/test, e.g. preconfigurable steps (like starting webserver, recompiling sass)
[*]Debug the webserver process. I'm used to breakpoints nowadays. Using breakpoints in the PHP code would be extremely nice.
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Please suggest a toolkit/IDE/etc to me.

Also suggestions for tooling on Linux distros, OSX would also be welcome for future reference.

PhpStorm has been recommended to me, let's see what it can do.

On Windows I just use XAMPP, Sass and Sublime Text.

You don't need some kind of build task for dealing with sass - it has a watch command which will handle everything for you. You can just run sass --watch src:css in the theme folder and let it sit.

Ok, I was able to locally run the site after installing and properly configuring phpstorm, xampp, ruby, sass, etc...

Took long enough. Now I'm too tired to code. :D

This PhpStorm IDE seems really amazing by the way, but I'm not sure if I need all these features.

On a side note, I should make the bbcode validator reject your sig.

It luckily htmlencoded the : character, so the browser never ran the js. Otherwise I would have already stolen all cookies.

It's not that trivial what is a valid url and what is not, but at least it could be a good idea to limit the characters accepted in all bbcodes that have urls as parameters.

Also I was unable to dump the whole database with sqlmap ;__;, but it was only round 1.