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You are not out of luck, or alone. Not by a long way.
Open source has come a long way. Today you can download development tools for PHP from a number of sources.
My favourite, and the one I've used most on my Windows machines is Maguma Studio - there's a free version avaialable at www.maguma.com.
Maguma Studio is a source-level IDE for editing a variety of files but centered around tools that enhance a developer's ability to integrate PHP into their website.
The editing window supports HTML and PHP highlighting concurrently, Javascript, Stylesheets, SQL, Perl, VBScript, Pascal, Java and C++. It also supports custom template files for generating new files from a typical format.
The Toolbox contain a File Manager, Class Browser, Project Manager and CVS interface, a user-editable Snippet Library for CSS and PHP.
Debugging a PHP script is done by integration with DBG, supporting breakpoints, watches, stepping and immediate evaluation. Previewing a PHP is done by running either a local PHP binary or can be viewed through a remote server accessed via FTP.
An FTP Manager is built into the editor so that files can be loaded, saved and viewed from a remote server. The DOCROOT can be defined for optionally viewing these remote files through the associated webserver.
You'll also need some additional software to simulate a typical Internet environment, please read the "Apache/mySQL" article.
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