Code Coloring in PHP and DW CS6

3CEES wrote: The echo function gets handled as script reserved keywords. So it gets the same color like the if's and else's.

While it's true that Dreamweaver CS4 treated the syntax colouring of "echo" as a function, it's not actually a PHP function. It's a PHP language construct (see http://docs.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php), which might explain why it's now coloured differently in CS6.

I also set the bracket color to black. They are shown in orange (like comments) - both bracket types....

That appears to be a bug. You should report it to http://adobe.ly/DWBug.

Tabspaces: I am suing tabspaces also for defining variables like: $a          = "test"; $bb        = "anything else"; This also worked in CS4 but not in CS 6....(not a must, but makes the code looking nice and ist faster than spaces and more efficient) I can place the equal signs only correct by using spaces. The settings in DW should be okay. Ich checked this.

I can't reproduce this problem on Windows (haven't tested it in a Mac). Pressing Tab works fine. However, it you select the option to insert tabs as spaces, you need to press Tab twice.

In my optinion the new DW is slower than the CS4. When I open a script it takes at least 2 seconds, before I see any code.  The ftp Upload (with or without the speedup option) is also much slower _ I tested every option there.....

Are you using the Mac version? There are known problems with slow scripts and FTP on the Mac. See http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1100065.