Trying to evaluate phped and understand how it might help.
I begin a line echo ' '
Now I want some help putting some html in the quotes. Does it do that? All I can find is the HTML 4.01 Specification. I don't need phped for that.

I started today opening an existing php file that represents a web page. I tried to run and got a message about unable to remote debug, and something about need to Open a Project. No help available on "open project".

But with a little looking I found what I needed. But why did have to know where to look on my hard drive for phped's project file? It selected the place and named the file. If it is important to open a project why isn't there an Open Project menu item? Or am I doing something entirely wrong here?

A project is part of a workspace and there is a "New project" item in the file menu. Once the project has been created you can open it ("add to workspace") by right clicking on the workspace name and choosing "Add existing project".