Which is the best php ide?

Question

Which is the best php ide?

Answer 1

Check out the zend Studio, which is created by the creator of PHP.



It's better than Eclipse, because it's designed for PHP not for Java with add-on. If you are serious PHP coder like me, you will love it.



It's not free, but my company pay for it. :-)

Answer 2

The answer to this question depends on a variety of factors.



-What is your os?

-What is your development environment?

-What is your budget?



The first thing to know is that there are a *lot* of editors out there. The prior responses mentioned two of the big ones: eclipse vs. Zend. What they both have in common is that they are written in java. While Zend does have their own environment, which is entirely focused on PHP, they also are contributing to the php specific extensions to eclipse.



Let me clarify 2 misconceptions from the prior responses. First, Zend is not as stated, the people who made PHP. PHP is a collaboration of people. Zend is certainly a hub of PHP, as they contributed the php compiler, and as a company have been the closest thing to a "foundation" that php has. They're part advocacy, consultancy, figure heads (the Zend name was derived from the two main contributors to the zend engine, Zev and Andi) product company, and project leads. With that said, while they have been major contributors to PHP, there is a substantial group of people who helped make PHP what it is, that have nothing to do with Zend.



I state this, because Zend is certainly not the only game in town, and have no competitive advantages in terms of contributing an IDE for PHP. The same things that are in the Zend IDE are in other IDE's and editors.



The 2nd comment that denigrated Eclipse is the very thing that makes it strong -- mainly that it is *not* just a php IDE. It's more general purpose, and for that reason has some real advantages that the Zend guys have freely admitted. The first is that Eclipse has plugins for lots of different languages, project types and files. It started as a java centric ide, but it offers support for a lot of different languages, including PHP. The plugin/extension I used it for is called phpeclipse, and it adds the same sorts of php specific stuff that Zend has. Zend does have some nicer features, but nothing that I found I couldn't live without, or that warranted a 300+ expenditure on my part.



On the flipside, Eclipse does some things much better than Zend, first and foremost, in its integration with cvs and subversion. As a pro, using a source code management system is pretty important. Zend has it too, but in a much more barebones, non-integrated fashion, last I looked.



I'd suggest you try eclipse with phpeclipse and see if it meets your needs. If however, you are writing php day in day out in order to make a living, and the price of the editor is not a major factor for you, evaluate Zend too. Eventually one or the other will emerge for you as your choice.



And just in case you want more options, look at the link I provided -- an entire site about the many options for developing your php code.



As for dreamweaver, it's really a wysiwig tool.

Answer 3

Chami.com Html-Kit.



It has php syntax colorization besides direct link to PHP help.

Answer 4

For php I've allways used Macromedia Dreamweaver but it isn't free I think the latest version is around $400 USD so maybe it isn't what you're looking for.



I have never used Eclipse but I've heard it's quite good.

Answer 5

My choice is Codelobster PHP Edition: http://www.codelobster.com

It has many usefull plug-ins for popular frameworks.

Answer 6

you need to use NetBeans for Hypertext Preprocessor (if I keep in mind properly), yet in addition Aptana Studio, that's based on the Eclipse IDE (in case you have ever used that). for my section, i might advise getting faraway from IDEs completely in case you intend on doing diverse programming on the internet, simply by fact javascript, for occasion, would not have an IDE, and actually, you're able to do in spite of you need to in a solid text cloth editor (Notepad++, or gedit, or god help us all: vim/emacs).

Answer 7

For which operating system? And what is your definition of the "best"? Do you require code completion? language help? local debugging? remote debugging? Do you want it to be lightweight or feature-rich? Does price matter?

Answer 8

My opinion is the Eclipse is the best: You will find it (free) http://www.eclipse.org/

Answer 9

9. IDE tools for PHP

Many HTML editors are supporting PHP. In near future every HTML editors and XML editor will be supporting PHP "Rapid Application Development" tool.



You will notice that some of the PHP editors run only on MS Windows. Yes!! there are millions of PHP developers on MS Windows platform. PHP is IMMENSELY POPULAR on Microsoft Windows platform and is surprisingly more popular than Microsoft's own ASP web scripting language!! PHP runs lot faster than ASP on MS Windows and has more features and functionalities than Microsoft ASP. PHP is much more robust, reliable and powerful than ASP. There are more PHP users under MS Windows98/NT/2000 than on any other operating system!! PHP initially started on Linux/unix environment but today there are more PHP developers on MS Windows platform as compared to unix.



9.1 PHP IDE

PHP IDE tools are at :



PHPAktThe PHP support in Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev that allows Ultradev Developers to create PHP sites PHPAkt

PHP Lens http://phplens.com is a rapid application development component which allows PHP developers to dynamically and quickly create web applications that retrieve information from databases. With phpLens, data can be presented as html tables with facilities to create, edit, paginate, search and delete records. PHPLens uses ADODB. See also ADODB.

PHP IDE and Editor "PHP Coder" http://www.phpide.de and mirror

Zend PHP IDE http://zend.com/store/products/zend-ide.php

IDE for PHP scripting (Web Browser) : http://www.ekenberg.se/php/ide

Nexidion PHP IDE http://www.nexidion.org

Enter in Search keyword 'PHP IDE' in Source Forge http://sourceforge.net

Color editor gvim for PHP (Win and linux) at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO.html and see also ptags of PHP

9.2 PHP IDE for MS Windows only

PHP IDE/editor on MS Windows platform are :



Rated 1st (the best PHP tool on MS Windows) : PHPTriad is a complete PHP development and server environment for Windows. It installs PHP, Apache, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin, both installing and setting up the environment. PHPTriad is at http://www.phpgeek.com/phptriad.php and at mirrorsite

Rated 2nd : PHP Coder http://www.php-ide.com

Rated 3rd: PHPEd (Soyal), an excellent PHP editor (MS Windows) http://soysal.free.fr/PHPEd



IDE for PHP editor (MS Windows): http://www.phpedit.com

Color editor gvim for PHP (Win and linux) at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO.html and see also ptags of PHP

IDE for PHP (MS Windows) http://www.pc-service-boerner.de/PHPScriptEditor.htm

"EditPlus Text editor" win32 http://www.editplus.com (high rating 5 stars)

eNotepad win32 http://www.edisys.com/Products/eNotepad/enotepad.asp (high rating 5 stars)

PHP editor win32 http://www.chami.com/html-kit (high rating 5 stars)

UltraEdit win32 http://www.ultraedit.com with PHP word file at http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/additional.html

ScriptWorx editor win32 http://www.softlite.net/products/scriptworx (rating 4.5 stars)

TextPad editor win32 http://www.textpad.com (rating 4.5 stars)

PHP editor "ASPEdit" http://www.tashcom.com/aspedit (rating 3.5 stars) along with PHP code explorer http://www.tashcom.com/codex (rating 4.5 stars)

HTML/PHP editor Dreamweaver http://www.dreamweaver.com

HTML/PHP editor Homesite http://www.allaire.com/homesite

HTML/PHP editor Hotdog http://www.hotdog.com

9.3 PHP IDE for both MS Windows and Linux

PHP IDE/editor for bot MS Windows and Linux platforms are :



PHP editor (for both windows and linux/unixes) http://www.coffeecup.com/select/editor.html (rating 5 stars).

HTML/PHP editors Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya

Folding text editor (Win and linux) http://fte.sourceforge.net

PHP Editor (Win and linux) http://www.scintilla.org

Color editor gvim for PHP (Win and linux) at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO.html and see also ptags of PHP

Jed (win and linux) http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html



Editors for PHP : http://www.itworks.demon.co.uk/phpeditors.htm

Editors for PHP : http://www.oodie.com/tools/index.php?view=editor

9.4 PHP IDE for Linux only

The best IDE for PHP on linux is Coffeecup Editor as given below:



Color editor gvim for PHP (Win and linux) at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO.html and see also ptags of PHP

PHP editor http://www.coffeecup.com/select/editor.html (rating 5 stars).

HTML/PHP editors Quanta http://quanta.sourceforge.net

HTML/PHP editors Blue Fish http://bluefish.linuxave.net

HTML editors AswEdit http://www.advasoft.com

9.5 PHP Utilities



Zend Optimizers http://www.zend.com

Zend Compilers http://www.zend.com



Lots of info on PHP on MS Windows platform http://php.weblogs.com



PHP GroupWare Apps http://www.phpgroupware.org

PHP Web Shop http://www.phpshop.org

PHP Nuke Web Portal system PhpNuke

9.6 Convert Microsoft ASP scripts to PHP - ASP2PHP

To convert ASP scripts to PHP use this utility http://asp2php.naken.cc





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