I've used VS.PHP (http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php) for years with great success, but I've run out of licensing on all my machines and I want to have a unified development environment for my PHP programming.
Granted it's only $99 and I enjoy paying for code that helps me out, but I have too many home machines and would rather spend that $99 on boats or booze.
I would love to stay in Visual Studio(2005) and was wondering if there is a good open source alternative plugin for PHP development in Visual Studio that anyone knows about.
Thanks.
there's phalanger
You can consider using Visual Studio Code which may not be quite as robust as VS and third party add-ons, but it does support PHP out of the box!
Visual Studio Code is free and available on Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows"
You can also add PHP debugging with the vscode-php-debug extension.
There is standalone PHP Tools for Visual Studio (freeware and trial) which I would recommend; simple, fast, smart IntelliSense with an option to use it completely free