Fast Windows PHP editor with SVN and FTP support?

Question

I'm looking for a decent, and fast PHP editor for Windows. Something that runs natively under x64 would be ideal.

I've tried aptana studio, but I'm not impressed with all the excessive bloat. The clunky SVN support and lack of native FTP combined with basically a messy IDE is nasty.

I currently use Coda from Panic on my mac, and I love the SVN + FTP intergration. It is fast, responsive, and doesnt give me any hassle.

I'm not adverse to:

1. Installing Linux if there is a suitable product.
2. Using Visual Studio with appropriate plugins.
3. Spending money on a commercial product.

Answer 1

As far as open source applciations, you can try Eclipse with the PDT(PHP Develoment Tools) plugin. I've found it works well.

If you're willing to pay a little, Zend Studio is a very nice editor, it is based on PDT and Eclipse, but has some nice commercial quality polishing.

I frequently use both these solutions, and would recommend them to anyone. Especially if you're already comfortable with Eclipse.

For SVN support, use the Subclipse plugin to eclipse. The SVN plugin with Aptana I found frustrating also. Zend Studio has a nice SVN wizard. The Subclipse plugin integrates well into Eclipse.

Answer 2

Try Geany

It is very fast and lightweight. Developers call it IDE, but I'd rather call it "editor on steroids". It does autocomplete on some HTML tags, and has autocomplete and calltips for PHP functions.

It has Subversion plugin

It does not have a FTP plugin though, main reason because you can easily read/write remote FTP as if they were on the local disk and work with those just like regular files:

http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/03/how-to-mount-an-ftp-drive-in-windows/

http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/map-an-ftp-drive-in-windows-304502.php

Answer 3

I particularly like NuSphere's PhpED. Has debugging, code folding, etc. in addition to FTP and svn, and it's pretty fast.

Answer 4

While it is not free I can strongly recommend Ultra Edit:

The studio version has integrated SVN as well as ftp.

http://www.ultraedit.com/products/uestudio.html

I like it mostly because the editor itself is very powerful.

Answer 5

Not sure if NetBeans has FTP support for transferring files to and from, but it has excellent Subversion support. I've come to like NetBeans very much, my last editor was the Zend Studio IDE.

http://www.netbeans.org/

Answer 6

Either the One True Editor, or the Other One True Editor. Both have baked-in support for SVN, and though I've never used it, I'm fairly sure TRAMP can do FTP (not sure about VIM for this).

Answer 7

I use Activestate's Komodo IDE. It has good SVN integration and can open files from remote servers (including FTP). With a very large project it can get a little slow/clunky but it's general pretty fast.

Komodo IDE is a commerical product (~$300 USD), but ActiveState have a cut down open source version called Komodo Edit but I do not believe it has SVN support.

An alternative for FTP support is to use a a program like Fuse (OSX/Linux only) to mount a FTP server as a directory, I believe there are a couple of commercial Windows programs that offer similar features.

Answer 8

I use PHP Designer and it's works well. Has TortoiseSVN support, fast, not too large, ftp, debugging, live syntax checking etc.

Not too expensive either :)

Can't post the link coz i'm a new user :(

mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php

Answer 9

Notepad++ with FTP_synchronize and Subversion plugins.

And it's free.

Answer 10

I personally use NetBeans. I used Eclipse PDT, but NetBeans seemed cleaner and faster. Easier to configure as well. It has it's own Subversion plugin which works very well. There's also FTP extension called Remote File System but I haven't used it.

Answer 11

I use Netbeans it has both sftp and ftp support with full featured subversion support (diff,merge,history etc). You can connect to remote machine through ssh inside the ide itself(like PuTTY).