best IDE / Editor for PHP

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Any good PHP IDE, preferably free or cheap?

I want to know if there's an IDE for PHP like Visual Web Developer for .net? Thanks mates

Answer 1

Take a look at this question: Any good PHP IDE, preferably free or cheap?

Answer 2

What about Delphi for PHP 2.0?

Answer 3

I've been developing in PHP for five year and tried almost every available IDE, the best one is ZEND(http://www.zend.com/) it has a great support for autocompleting, project management, debugger and profiler. It integrates with svn and csv

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It's not quite like Visual Web Developer, or free, but Zend Studio is one of the better PHP development apps I've used. Haven't tried the newer 6.1 version, but 5.5 was quite good the last time I used it. You could also try something like Webuilder or Homesite, but I've found these to be a little buggy with frequent crashes (though they are cheaper than Zend Studio).

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TextMate on Mac OS X!

Answer 6

try out aptana

Answer 7

I like the Eclipse PDT all in one.

"The package includes: WTP (all in one), PDT and a plugin of Zend Debugger." http://www.zend.com/en/community/pdt

Komodo IDE is also fantastic.

Answer 8

I use VS.PHP, an addon (or standalone package) for Visual Studio.

Answer 9

I prefer Eclipse with PDT installed. It contains:

• A library of all PHP functions
• Integrated WSDL Generator
• Class Designer
• UML Diagram support
• Object/Instance IntelliSense.
• Resource Manager

Answer 10

You may also want to check out this question: What are some pros and cons of the various PHP IDEs?

Answer 11

Notepad++ is my choice though it has less intellesense and far from WYSIWYG but it consume less resources and has marked nested coding so you could recognize each block easily, for a kind like Ms VWD Eclipse with PDT installed is great and i having problem with PHPdesigner especially in UTF-8 file encoding, and weird it often produced chunk(or whatever it called) in some pages which makes my JSON response error

Answer 12

I just switched to Aptana a few months ago and I really like it.

It's free too. :)

Answer 13

I've asked a similar question - hopefully some of the feedback / discussion is useful to you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/365676/which-ide-is-for-me

Answer 14

Check out NuSphere PhpED. I've been using it for 3 years now and have been impressed. Also included a debugger, both local and server side.

Answer 15

"Delphi for PHP" is a very good IDE for building PHP applications, and it also contains VCL for PHP library that provides visual component model and makes database programming easy. More at http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/php

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I use Aptana for most of my PHP and HTML work. Delphi for PHP left a bad taste in my mouth (I used v1.0). I bought it due to CodeGear's (or rather, Borland's) rep, but found the documentation lacking, and the VCL often "broken".

On the good side, I found the IDE itself stable enough, rarely ever crashes (unlike my VS2008, which crashed a few times) and provides the usual IDE goodness you'd come to expect from Borland. I bought it for the VCL though so that was a deal-breaker.

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Since no one have still mentioned it, I use NetBeans with the PHP Plugin wich supports debugging via XDebug, code completion and itellisense among other useful features.

Answer 18

Intype is like Textmate, but for windows: http://intype.info/home/index.php get a more recent version from the rss feed: http://intype.info/public/releases/unstable.rss

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I'd like to second the call for Eclipse + PDT. Personally, I'm kinda against the whole "IDE debugger" approach to coding -- it can be a crutch, replaceable with good unit testing.

The plugins really make PDT Eclipse for me:
Mylyn for Bugzilla integration
Subclipse for SVN integration
JSEclipse for Javascript editing

Avoid the new PDT 2.0 -- its been very buggy around our office and is probably not ready for prime time.

I've tried a ton of other editors. Here's why I like Eclipse better:

Visual Studio Incredible pain to install, is Windows only, and super expensive. For PHP, VS doesn't really give you much over what you get with Eclipse IMO. Besides, any serious PHP dev should be building and testing code in an environment similar to production (*nix). Plus, it's very expensive. Eclipse is free, portable.

Plain-Text Editors Doesn't tell you when you have basic syntax errors. No code completion which saves bugs, time, and money.

Aptana I couldn't get this one to work flawlessly, and it seems to slow down Eclipse without much benefit. I don't require a visual HTML designer nor a debugger, so I Aptana doesn't really give me anything new.

Answer 20

Notepad++ fits great to me =)

Answer 21

Hi.

Check http://www.codelobster.com It is waht you need exactly (with Microfost style)

Regards, Stas.

Answer 22

I pretty much use and love Netbeans, it's auto completition and many other small features make it worth the try,

Answer 23

What I find most useful when programming in PHP is not really the IDE itself, more its integration to my deployment environment. I use Linux and I exclusively use Gedit (Gnome's Text Editor) due to how easy it is to work with remote files on the remote server through SSHFS or FTP.

So I strongly recommend getting a virtual file-system environment if you're working with PHP webpages. There is nothing more annoying than having to manually move the files across after modifying.

On Windows, Dreamweaver's code editor has this functionality, on Linux (or other *nix variants) can use the gnome virtual file-system or FUSE.

However if you're strictly focused on IDE, I recommend Bluefish.

Answer 24

I use NetBeans for PHP and like it very much.