Free PHP editor for Mac?

Question

I am new to the Mac world and I'm looking for PHP development tools, right now the most important thing is the editor. Syntax highlighting and a file tree list are mandatory, of course, and code insight would be nice (of course :). I am hoping that there are free editors out there that provide these functionality and I hope someone could enlighten me. I have been searching on Google but most of the results were comparing their PHP editor with free ones or were poor editors that didn't even offer building projects and a tree list.

Could someone help me out?

Answer 1

You should try Aptana Studio. It has a PHP plugin and a great HTML editor: http://www.aptana.com/

Answer 2

Why not just use Eclipse with the PDT plugin, Eclipse rocks.

Answer 3

A quick search on MacUpdate.com showed the following as a free and well reviews text editor - Text Wrangler

However if you consider looking at non free, then TextMate is superb.

Answer 4

I haven't delved too deeply into either of the following editors so I can't give you a full detailed report, but I can say that Smultron and TextWrangler are both great editors, and both free.

They both offer syntax highlighting and I am not sure how complex the tree lists are but I know that they both offer nice open document lists.

If you are really adventurous, jEdit is a very cool editor. It is written in Java so it is multi-platform. It was specificly designed as a programming editor. It has a lot of functionality out of the box, but it is also supports user created plugins (including a tree listing) which can be downloaded and installed directly from within the app.

Answer 5

You should try Netbeans

Answer 6

Well, Komodo Edit is fantastic and it's free and it's available for the Mac.

Answer 7

I'll second TextWrangler.

Answer 8

First off, this is only about FREE editors, if that's what you're looking for.

I'm new to web programming but have a pretty solid background in VB and C. Learning LAMP right now and have tried out three editors in the past two weeks quite thoroughly. How thoroughly? Well, I'm unemployed and my survival is hinging upon building my company. :)

After doing my research, I decided to try TextWrangler, Smultron and Komodo Edit.

All three are good, but my favorite is Komodo Edit. However, it should be said that TextWrangler and Smultron are more editors, where Komodo is more of an IDE (interactive development environment), even though Komodo offers an additional program called Komodo IDE. If Komodo Edit is this powerful, I can't imagine what Komodo IDE does.

Basically, I like Komodo Edit because it's a FREE editor, with some IDE capabilities that are very useful. Hits that nice middle ground between editor / IDE.

Hope this helps.

Answer 9

I'd also recommend Netbeans. Great IDE and works on most platforms.