List of PHP editors
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This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language.
Free editors
Editor
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License | Latest Version | Platform | Autocompletion | File Browser | GUI builder
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Internal Browser | Version Control | PHP Debugger | ||||||
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Linux | macOS | Windows | Other | Local | FTP | SFTP | SSH | ||||||||
Aptana Studio
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APL/ GPLv1 | 3.6.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM
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Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | With XDebug[1] | |||
Atom | MIT | 1.13.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD[2] | Yes[3] | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
Bluefish | GPLv3 | 2.2.9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD[4] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ||||
Brackets | MIT | 1.8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
CodeLite | GPLv2 | 17.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD[5] | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
Eclipse PDT
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EPL | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM
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Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | With XDebug[6] | |||
Geany | GPLv2 | 1.29 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD[7] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ||||
gedit | GPLv3 | 3.22.2 | Yes[8] | Yes | Yes[8] | FreeBSD | Yes[9] | ? | Yes[9] | Yes | ? | With XDebug[10] | |||
GNU Emacs | GPLv3 | 27.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSDs, OpenSolaris | Yes | dired (builtin) | tramp (builitin) | tramp (builtin) | tramp (builitin) | Yes | Yes | vc (builtin) | ? |
jEdit | GPLv2 | 5.5.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM
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No | Yes | Yes[11] | Yes[11] | Yes[12] | No | Yes | ? | |
Kate | GPLv2 | 16.08.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
KWrite | GPLv2 | 16.08.1 | Yes | Yes | No | FreeBSD | No | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
KDevelop[13] | GPLv2 | 5.0.3 | Yes | Partial[14] | Yes | FreeBSD[15] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |||
Komodo Edit | MPL | 10.1.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes[16] | No[17] | ||||
NetBeans | CDDL/ GPLv2/ LGPLv2.1 | 21[18] (20 February 2024) [±] | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM
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Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With XDebug[19] |
Notepad++ | GPL | 7.2.2 | No[20] | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | With XDebug[21] |
SciTE | GPLv2 | 3.7.1 | Yes[22] | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD[23] | No | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
Sublime Text | Shareware | 4113 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ||||||||
TextMate | GPLv1 | 1.5 | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
Vim | Vim License | 9.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[24] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
Visual Studio Code | MIT | This template is not used anymore. The latest stable and pre-release versions are maintained in Wikidata and they appear automatically in the main article for Visual Studio Code.
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Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[25] | ? | No | Yes | ? |
Cross-platform
- Aptana Studio– Eclipse-based IDE, able to use PDT plugins, visual JS editor. Open-source, free project. (Community edition merged in).
- Atom – free and open-source[26] text editor with out-of-the-box PHP support.
- Brackets – free and open-source editor in HTML5/NodeJS by Adobe Team the best for integration frontend
- Gitdatabase browsing and others.
- FTP access, database navigation, Tracintegration, and others.
- Editra – open source editor. Syntax highlighting and (partial) code completion for PHP + HTML and other IDE-like features like code browser etc.
- Emacs – advanced text editor. The nXhtml addon has special support for PHP (and other template languages). The major mode web-mode.el is designed for editing mixed HTML templates.
- Geany – syntax highlighting for HTML + PHP. Provides PHP function list.
- FTP.
- Komodo Edit– general purpose scripting language editor with support for PHP. Free version of the commercial ActiveState Komodo IDE.
- Gitsince 7.2 and powerful plugin support for added functionality.
- SciTE – PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via Lua API.
- Vim – provides PHP syntax highlighting, debugging.[27]
Windows
- ConTEXT– *No longer under development* Freeware editor with syntax highlighting.
- Crimson Editor – Lightweight editor. Supports FTP.
- FTP. Supports multiple file encodings as of version 2.
- Notepad2 – Simple editor with syntax highlighting
- spell checking, custom classes completion, code beautifiers
- PSPad – Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.
- RJ TextEd – Text editor with many great features
macOS
- Coda (web development software) – Shareware IDE/Editor
- Smultron
- TextWrangler– Supports SFTP and FTP
Linux
- gedit
- gPHPEdit
- .
- KDevelop – Supports everything as Kate above with addition of references of functions and syntax parser.
- Kwrite
Proprietary editors
- ActiveState Komodo IDE– Support for PHP syntax checking, debugging, trial available (NOTE: As of 2020, ActiveState Komodo is now completely free, and only requires that you register an account in order to use)
- Adobe Dreamweaver – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
- BBEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
- Cloud9 – Online editor (supports multiple languages)[28]
- Coda – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
- CodeCharge Studio – Supports FTP
- Codelobster – Editor with syntax highlighting, debugger, code validation, supports FTP.
- Codenvy– Cloud development environment.
- Delphi for PHP) – Focus on web (Facebook, Google) and mobile (iOS, Android) development; Trial available
- EmEditor
- HTML-Kit – Syntax highlighting, supports FTP.
- HyperEdit – Integrates PHP, JavaScript and HTML in an only interface WYSIWYG.
- JetBrains PhpStorm– PHP IDE with editor, on-the-fly code analysis and other web development specific tools including FTP/SFTP synchronization; Trial available
- Komodo IDE– Cross-platform integrated development environment for PHP as well as Python, Ruby and Perl.
- Microsoft Expression Web – Full PHP support with syntax highlighting, etc.; Trial available
- NoteTab – Allows you to have multiple tabs open for different files, has FTP support, comes in two trial versions (NoteTab Standard, NoteTab Pro) and one free version NoteTab Light. NoteTab Pro highlights tags.
- Gitsupport can be added using Tortoise Windows Shell plugins.
- PHPEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP
- PHP Tools for Visual StudioPHP syntax highlighting, debugger, code validation, testing, support for other languages, among others. One- month trial available
- Rapid PHP Editor – Support for PHP syntax checking, auto-complete, debug and support for CSS, Javascript and HTML
- SlickEdit
- Smultron
- SourceLair – Online IDE for PHP,[29] as well as JavaScript and Python
- TextPad – Trial available
- Top PHP Studio – Supports FTP
- UltraEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
- Zend Studio – (Cross platform) professional PHP IDE, based on the PHP Development Tools plugin for the Eclipse platform; Trial available
References
- ^ "How to debug php in Aptana Studio". Archived from the original on 7 August 2013.
- ^ Instructions for building Atom on FreeBSD are all that are officially available. No official binary releases are available.
- ^ With the atom-autocomplete-php package.
- ^ "FreshPorts -- www/bluefish: HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer". freshports.org.
- ^ "FreshPorts -- editors/codelite: Open Source IDE for C/C++". freshports.org.
- ^ "Debugging using XDebug – Eclipsepedia".
- ^ "Third-Party Packages | Geany". geany.org.
- ^ a b Outdated packages available only: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit.
- ^ a b Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-phpide
- ^ Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-dbgp-plugin
- ^ a b With the FTP plugin
- ^ With the SSH Console plugin
- ^ "KDevelop PHP Support". Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ No pre-built binaries are available. Build instructions are available for macOS.
- ^ devel/kdevelop-kde4 Port
- ^ With the Komodin Git addon
- ^ [1] The PHP debugger is supported in Komodo IDE, not in Komodo Edit
- ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
- ^ "Debugging PHP Source Code in the NetBeans IDE".
- ^ Will run in Wine, however
- ^ "Debugging PHP using Xdebug and Notepad++ : Part I". 25 January 2009.
- ^ But it is not free
- ^ editors/scite Port
- ^ Has been ported to virtually every Unix/Unix-like system and various others. Reference: download : vim online.
- ^ With the PHP IntelliSense extension.
- ^ Henry, Alan (5 October 2016). "Atom, the Text Editor from GitHub, Goes Free and Open-Source". Lifehacker.
- ^ How to Debug PHP with Vim and XDebug on Linux
- ^ "Cloud9 – Your development environment, in the cloud".
- ^ "PHP support in SourceLair". SourceLair Help.