Free PHP IDE

Aabaz · 2008-11-23 19:44:01

Hi everyone,
i was wondering if you guys know some good free (maybe open source) php ide ?

Thanks for your help, i've been searching on the internet but i can't make up my mind on which one to choose so i could use some user advice.

Felix · 2008-11-23 20:10:51

http://www.eclipse.org/pdt

eric235u · 2008-11-23 20:27:11

i'm currently using the netbeans ide 6.5 rc2 on linux and windows. not awesome but works pretty well. lots of features. free.

Frank H · 2008-11-23 22:15:35

I'm using Komodo Edit ... the Edit one is free
(the Komodo IDE isn't free, but it's not needed, as there's enough project functionality in Komodo Edit)

Last edited by Frank H (2008-11-23 22:17:10)

Pedro · 2008-11-24 14:09:48

eric235u wrote:

i'm currently using the netbeans ide 6.5 rc2 on linux and windows. not awesome but works pretty well. lots of features. free.

Not awesome? It rocks!
Seeing the documentation popping up on the screen as you type is very practical. That's the killer feature.

Kaboon · 2008-11-24 14:51:24

Back in the days when I didn't have Zend Studio, I used to use Dev-PHP (http://devphp.sourceforge.net/) or HTML-Kit 292 (http://www.htmlkit.com/download/).

Last edited by Kaboon (2008-11-24 14:51:46)

ridgerunner · 2008-11-24 18:47:21

Frank H wrote:

I'm using Komodo Edit ... the Edit one is free
(the Komodo IDE isn't free, but it's not needed, as there's enough project functionality in Komodo Edit)

I second the Komodo Edit suggestion. Its designed to be a complete editing solution to handle both client (Javascript, (X)HTML, CSS, XML) and server (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl) technologies. It has the additional benefit of being cross platform - i.e. it looks and runs exactly the same on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.

I use the (expensive $245) Komodo IDE version for its debugging support for PHP and Javascript (it also debugs the other languages). However, it is script based and the installation is BIG. (well, HUGE actually: 116 MB/4100+ files in the Program Files folder and 34MB/2800+ files in the User/Application Data folder.) Although I would normally consider this to be over-bloat, the product does work very well and does things no other product can claim to do.

But for general text editing (including PHP), I cannot recommend EditPad Pro strongly enough ($49). This has become my favorite text editor of all time, for its superior handling of regular expressions, unobtrusive install/uninstall, speed and clean, small footprint (under 12MB/99 files). There is a freeware version of this program (EditPad Lite), but it does not include syntax highlighting. My previous favorite editor, UltraEdit32, now takes a back seat (but I still bring it out when I need to do block column editing.) I cannot say enough good things about EditPad and all of the other excellent products from Just Great Software (JGsoft). Their software truly is "GREAT" (particularly if you are serious about using regular expressions).

hcgtv · 2008-11-24 19:17:06

ridgerunner wrote:

I use the (expensive $245) Komodo IDE version for its debugging support for PHP and Javascript (it also debugs the other languages).

I also use Komodo IDE, I'm at 4.4.1 now and waiting to upgrade to 5.0 after the bugs have been ironed out. I hear 5.0 is faster since it's based on the Firefox 3.0 code base. I like the Debugging and Code Browser features of the IDE, makes it very easy to make changes to PHP code.

Here's a good comparison of Edit versus IDE: http://www.activestate.com/Products/kom … ison.mhtml

xarkam · 2008-11-24 19:27:08

http://php.netbeans.org/
and
http://www.xdebug.org/

eric235u · 2008-11-25 22:38:22

Pedro wrote:

Not awesome? It rocks!
Seeing the documentation popping up on the screen as you type is very practical. That's the killer feature.

the only thing at the moment i don't like about netbeans is that it's written in java. :p the ui doesn't fit well with the system theme. such as on centos when you hover over something you want to select it whites out and you can't see the text. looks kind of crappy. it's also terribly slow to start up on windows and linux. but for the moment netbeans is good enough for me. if geany had the ability to split windows and had a subversion plugin like netbeans then i would switch to that.

one good thing about text editors and ides, there's plenty of them to choose from.

i use gvim for really large text files.

kikloo · 2009-01-18 13:38:29

Hi,

Have you tried WinSyntax ? Its quite addictive. The bad thing is that the author has stopped building it but still its working awesome im Vista. Has syntax highlighting, very fast and light (just like FluxBB) and supports F1 help on keywords of php.

Thanks.

Aabaz · 2009-01-18 17:40:53

I don't know about winsyntax but i tried a few softwares amongst those listed in this thread and i settled for netbeans.

Don't ask me why i chose it, maybe it was the most straightforward for me or because you can use it with windows/mac/linux so i'm not completely lost whenever i move to another OS

Oldskool · 2009-01-18 20:41:07

Felix wrote:

http://www.eclipse.org/pdt

I can also recommend Eclipse PDT. I use it myself for about half a year now and don't want anything else anymore, lovely IDE

lumpia · 2009-01-31 13:57:26

Komodo Edit is great... but i prefer Notepad++ because it's light.

twohawks · 2009-01-31 19:18:34

I slipped into phpdesigner 2008 a little while ago, and using it with xdebug plugin for Firefox is really helpful. I don't really use (yet) phpdesigner for my actual coding since I have my development environment otherwise fairly well sorted out already, but it seems a great working environment; however, once I got dbgListener setup to work correctly with phpdesigner and xdebug I can now step through php code line by line, with breaks and all that, and obtain excellent information on any aspect, including what's going on with sql interactions... its a real saver. Oh, and Java not required ;^) Small memory footprint.

I forget how exactly I picked up on phpdesigner, but I know I stumbled upon it somehow while looking into Komodo, Eclipse, Netbeans, and one or two others I had downloaded long time ago and just never got around to trying out. Its well worth looking into.

Cheers,

codeholic · 2009-02-01 05:47:29

BTW, has anybody managed to force XML CDATA sections to be displayed as PHP in Komodo Edit? That would be very useful for editing manifest files.

orkneywd · 2009-02-12 14:27:34

Smashing Magazines latest article is an IDE comparison, thought others may be interested http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02 … to-choose/

clo · 2009-02-24 07:40:27

See also new free PHP IDE - http://www.codelobster.com

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