List of PHP editors
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This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language.
Free editors
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Linux
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Aptana Studio
| {{yes|APL/ GPLv1}} | 3.6.1 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|JVM}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{yes}} | {{yes}} ||? |
Atom
| {{yes|MIT}} | 1.13.1 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD}}Instructions for [https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/docs/build-instructions/freebsd.md building Atom on FreeBSD] are all that are officially available. No official binary releases are available. | {{yes|YesWith the [https://atom.io/packages/atom-autocomplete-php atom-autocomplete-php] package.}} | | | ||? | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
Bluefish
| {{yes|GPLv3}} | 2.2.15 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD{{Cite web|url=https://www.freshports.org/www/bluefish/|title=FreshPorts -- www/bluefish: HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer|website=freshports.org}}}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} |
Brackets
| {{yes|MIT}} | 1.8 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
CodeLite
| {{yes|GPLv2}} | 18.1 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD{{Cite web|url=https://www.freshports.org/editors/codelite/|title=FreshPorts -- editors/codelite: Open Source IDE for C/C++|website=freshports.org}}}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
Eclipse PDT
| {{yes|EPL}} | 7.0 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|JVM}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|With XDebug{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.eclipse.org/Debugging_using_XDebug|title = Debugging using XDebug – Eclipsepedia}}}} |
Geany
| {{yes|GPLv2}} | 1.29 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD{{Cite web|url=https://www.geany.org/download/third-party/|title=Third-Party Packages | Geany|website=geany.org}}}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
gedit
| {{yes|GPLv3}} | 3.22.2 | {{yes|YesOutdated packages available only: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit.}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD}} | {{yes|YesPlugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-phpide}} | | | ||? | {{yes}} ||? | {{yes|With XDebugPlugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-dbgp-plugin}} |
GNU Emacs
| {{yes|GPLv3}} | 27.1 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|BSDs, OpenSolaris}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|dired (builtin)}} | {{yes|tramp (builitin)}} | {{dunno|tramp (builtin)}} | {{yes|tramp (builitin)}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|vc (builtin)}} | {{dunno}} |
jEdit
| {{yes|GPLv2}} | 5.5.0 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|JVM}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} |{{yes|YesWith the [http://plugins.jedit.org/plugindoc/FTP/ FTP] plugin}} |{{yes|YesWith the [http://plugins.jedit.org/plugindoc/SshConsole/ SSH Console] plugin}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
Kate
| {{yes|GPLv2}} | 16.08.1 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
KWrite
| {{yes|GPLv2}} | 16.08.1 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes|FreeBSD}} | {{no}} | | | ||? | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
KDevelop{{Cite web
|title = KDevelop PHP Support |url = https://apps.kde.org/kdev-php/ |access-date = 2024-01-08 }} | {{yes|GPLv2}} | 5.0.3 | {{yes}} | {{partial|PartialNo pre-built binaries are available. [https://community.kde.org/Mac Build instructions] are available for macOS.}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD[https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/kdevelop-kde4/ devel/kdevelop-kde4] Port}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
Komodo Edit
| {{yes|MPL}} | 10.1.2 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{yes}} | {{yes|YesWith the [http://community.komodoide.com/packages/addons/komodin-git/ Komodin Git] addon}} |
NetBeans
| {{yes|CDDL/ GPLv2/ LGPLv2.1}} | {{Latest stable software release/NetBeans}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|JVM}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|With XDebug{{Cite web|url=https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/debugging.html|title = Debugging PHP Source Code in the NetBeans IDE}}}} |
Notepad++
| {{yes|GPL}} | 7.2.2 | {{no|NoWill run in Wine, however}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|With XDebug{{Cite web|url=http://thecancerus.com/debugging-php-using-xdebug-and-notepad-part-i/|title=Debugging PHP using Xdebug and Notepad++ : Part I|date=25 January 2009}}}} |
SciTE
| {{yes|GPLv2}} | 3.7.1 | {{yes|YesBut it is not free}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes|FreeBSD[https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/editors/scite/ editors/scite] Port}} | {{no}} | | | ||? | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
Sublime Text
|4113 |Yes |Yes |Yes |? |Yes | | | | | | | |
TextMate
| {{yes|GPLv1}} | 1.5 | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | | | ||? | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
Vim
| {{yes|Vim License}} | 9.0 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |
Visual Studio Code
| {{yes|MIT}} | {{Latest stable software release/Visual Studio Code}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} | | | ||? | {{no}} | {{yes}} | {{dunno}} |
=Cross-platform=
- 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{{cite news|url=http://lifehacker.com/atom-the-text-editor-from-github-goes-free-and-open-s-1573153208|title=Atom, the Text Editor from GitHub, Goes Free and Open-Source|date=5 October 2016|work=Lifehacker | first=Alan| last=Henry}} text editor with out-of-the-box PHP support.
- Bluefish – free and open-source advanced editor with many web specific functions, has PHP syntax highlighting, auto-completion, function list, PHP function documentation, WebDAV, FTP, and SSH/SFTP support for uploading {{cite book |last=Bacon |first=Jono |author-link=Jono Bacon |date=2007 |title=Practical PHP and MySQL : building eight dynamic web applications |url=https://archive.org/details/practicalphpmysq0000baco/mode/2up |publisher=Prentice Hall |isbn=9780132239974}}
- 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.[http://developers.blog.box.com/2007/06/20/how-to-debug-php-with-vim-and-xdebug-on-linux/ How to Debug PHP with Vim and XDebug on Linux]
=Windows=
- 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=
- Coda (web development software) – Shareware IDE/Editor
- Smultron
- TextWrangler – Supports SFTP and FTP
=Linux=
Proprietary editors
- 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){{cite web |url = https://c9.io/ |title = Cloud9 – Your development environment, in the cloud }}
- 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.
- EmEditor
- 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
- 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
- SlickEdit
- Smultron
- SourceLair – Online IDE for PHP,{{Cite web|url=https://help.sourcelair.com/stacks/php/|title=PHP support in SourceLair|website=SourceLair Help}} as well as JavaScript and Python
- TextPad – Trial available
- 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