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15+ Best Free PHP IDEs for PHP Developers
I have always loved open source IDEs for php code development and from what i have seen most of the best php editors are commercial, yet there are only few free ones available, so i have decided to put up a list of pretty handful ones. I am sure there are many many php programmers who dont want to spend money for an IDE and this list of IDEs would be more helpful if you are hungry for a free editor. Trust me it took hours of work for me to come with this list.
1. Notepad++
Notepad++ is a dead simple, easy to use code editor for various programming languages including HTML, PHP, C++, SQL, Javascript and other plethora of languages. It is FREE and open source.
2. Context Editor
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- Rapid PHP is a fully featured PHP editor with all essential functions, such as Auto Complete, Function Hints and integrated documentation. PHP Code Explorer Updated! Code Explorer lists classes, functions, variables and includes contained in the script and allows you to quickly move to any of them. You can navigate to an item by clicking it.
ConTEXT is a compact, fast and easy to use freeware text editor with much simplicity designed as a secondary code editing IDE for programmers.
3. Eclipse
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Eclipse is the most widely used and popular multiple lange IDE for software development. It has PHP Development Kit available free for download and is exclusive for PHP developers. The eclipse editor is the best PHP editor to with for large scale projects, but to install the editor the Java must be installed without which it will not work. It is cross-platform and works in Linux, MacOS and Windows.
4. Aptana Studio
Aptana is a popular web development IDE for web development and application programming. It supports various languages including HTML, CSS, Javascript for web designers and programmers.
5. Netbeans
Netbeans is a free open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for software developers. It comes with all the tools you need to create a large scale web applications supporting almost all programming languages including C/C++, PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and Ruby and others.. It runs under the Java platform, which means you will need to install java in your PC run this editor.
6. jEdit
jEdit is a text editor for programmers and runs in Windows, Linux, Mac under java. It is free to download and licensed under GNU license.
7. Geany
Geane is a small, lightweight and fast performing IDE using GTK2 toolkit. It has basic features of an editor and supports various file types. It is FREE for download.
8. Dev-PHP IDE
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Dev-PHP is a freeware Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for PHP development. It is free to download and is licensed under GNU GPL license.
9. Davors PHP Editor
Davors PHP Editor is a compact, fast and easy to use php IDE for windows. It is a freeware.
10. Bluefish
Bluefish is a free lightweight open source (GPL) editor for web designers and programmers. It runs of multiple platforms including Linux, Mac, Windows.
11. PHP Coder
PHP Coder is a free PHP IDE for php development environment. It supports syntax highlighting, preview, autocomplete and other standard editing buttons. It is a freeware.
12. Alleycode
Alleycode is a freeware IDE text and html editor. It is very simple and easy to use.
13. Winsyntax
Winsyntax is a free php code editor with syntax highlighting and its a free application.
14. CodeLobster PHP Editor
Codelobster is a free portable IDE for PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript development. It comes with various plugins specific for cakephp, joomla, wordpress and smarty development.
15. Kompozer
Easy web authoring and html editor for Mac. It is free and easy to use.
16. Komodo Edit
Free code editor for windows, mac and linux platforms. It supports many programming languages including PHP, Python, Perl, Javscript, HTML and CSS.
These are the best editors i have seen. If you know any editors (useful ones) which i have left out, please leave a comment and i will be able to add that to the above list.
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This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language.
Free editors[edit]
| Editor | License | Latest Version | Platform | Autocompletion | File Browser | GUI builder | Internal Browser | Version Control | PHP Debugger | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | macOS | Windows | Other | Local | FTP | SFTP | SSH | ||||||||
| Aptana Studio | APL/ GPLv1 | 3.6.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | 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 | 9.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD[5] | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
| Eclipse PDT | EPL | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | 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 | 25.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSDs, OpenSolaris | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ||||
| jEdit | GPLv2 | 5.5.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | No | Yes | Yes[11] | Yes[12] | Yes[13] | 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 | GPLv2 | 5.0.3 | Yes | Partial[14] | Yes | FreeBSD[15] | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ||||
| Komodo Edit | MPL | 10.1.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes[16] | No[17] | ||||
| NetBeans | CDDL/ GPLv2/ LGPLv2.1 | 12.2 (December 7, 2020; 4 days ago) [±][18] | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | 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 | ? | ||||
| TextMate | GPLv1 | 1.5 | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
| Vim | Vim License | 8.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[24] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Visual Studio Code | MIT | 1.52 (December 12, 2020; 0 days' time) [±][25] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[26] | ? | No | Yes | ? | ||||
Cross-platform[edit]
- 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[27] text editor with out-of-the-box PHP support.
- Bluefish – a multipurpose editor with PHP syntax support, in-line PHP documentation, etc. With GVfs, supports SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, and SMB.
- Brackets – free and open-source editor in HTML5/NodeJS by Adobe Team the best for integration frontend
- CodeLite – an open source, cross platform IDE for C/C++ and PHP. The built-in plugins supports SVN, SSH/SFTP access, Git database browsing and others.
- Eclipse – PHP Development Tools (PDT) and PHPEclipse projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, database modelling, SSH/FTP access, database navigation, Trac integration, 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.
- jEdit – free/open source editor. Supports SFTP and FTP.
- Komodo Edit – general purpose scripting language editor with support for PHP. Free version of the commercial ActiveState Komodo IDE.
- Netbeans – IDE with PHP support and integration with web standards. Supports SFTP and FTP. Full support for SVN and Git since 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.[28]
Windows[edit]
- ConTEXT – *No longer under development* Freeware editor with syntax highlighting.
- Crimson Editor – Lightweight editor. Supports FTP.
- Microsoft WebMatrix – A combined editor, server and publishing environment, syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, Razor, node.js, C# and JavaScript and publishing through WebDeploy and FTP. Supports multiple file encodings as of version 2.
- Notepad2 – Simple editor with syntax highlighting
- Notepad++ – FLOSS multi-language editor with macro support, syntax highlighting (possible export to HTML), code completion, php.net function reference, foldable code blocks etc.; expandable via plugins, e.g. (S)FTP support, version control (Git, SVN), documentation generators, snippet support, spell checking, custom classes completion, code beautifiers
- PSPad – Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.
- RJ TextEd – Text editor with many great features
macOS[edit]
- Coda (web development software) - Shareware IDE/Editor
- TextWrangler – Supports SFTP and FTP
Linux[edit]
- Kate – Supports any file access protocol that is supported by KIO. This includes HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMB and WebDAV.
- KDevelop – Supports everything as Kate above with addition of references of functions and syntax parser.
Commercial editors[edit]
- 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) [29]
- 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.
- Embarcadero RadPHP (formerly Delphi for PHP) – Focus on web (Facebook, Google) and mobile (iOS, Android) development; Trial available
- 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.
- NuSphere PhpED – A PHP development environment and integration with modern web standards. Supports SFTP, WebDAV, and FTP. Native support for CVS source control system, SVN and Git support can be added using Tortoise Windows Shell plugins.
- PHPEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP
- PHP Tools for Visual Studio PHP 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
- SourceLair - Online IDE for PHP,[30] 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[edit]
- ^http://php.tutorialhorizon.com/how-to-debug-php-in-aptana-studio/
- ^Instructions for building Atom on FreeBSD are all that are officially available. No official binary releases are available.
- ^With the atom-autocomplete-php package.
- ^Fresh Ports www/bluefish
- ^Fresh Ports editors/codelite
- ^https://wiki.eclipse.org/Debugging_using_XDebug
- ^ThirdPartyPackages
- ^ abOutdated packages available only: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit.
- ^ abPlugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-phpide
- ^Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-dbgp-plugin
- ^With the FTP plugin
- ^With the FTP plugin
- ^With the SSH Console plugin
- ^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
- ^https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb122/nb122.html
- ^https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/debugging.html
- ^Will run in Wine, however
- ^http://thecancerus.com/debugging-php-using-xdebug-and-notepad-part-i/
- ^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.
- ^'Releases · microsoft/vscode'. GitHub. Microsoft. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^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.