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What is a good editor for PHP under Windows (and or Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, Mac)?

Apr 23rd, 2005 10:20
Knud van Eeden, Philip Olson, Mike Roche, Ben Udall, Richard Heyes, Bob Horton, Nathan Wallace, 


Because the editor scene is constantly changing/updating please use 
the following resources for finding your favorite PHP text editor.  
Note that just about any text editor these days has PHP syntax 
highlighting available.

 * http://google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/PHP/Tools/
 * http://www.php-editors.com/
 * http://www.thelinuxconsultancy.co.uk/phpeditors/

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Arachnophilia    License: Free (Care-ware)
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http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT

Builtin FTP client, supports macros

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UltraEdit        License: Sharware, 45 day, $30
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http://www.ultraedit.com
Platform: Windows 16 and 32 bit

It has line goto, bracket matching, bookmarks, syntax highlighting,
automatic file type conversion etc.
Very nice shareware with a low price.

http://www.vim.org.  Free Vi IMproved for many platforms.  It has a
graphical user interface.

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Notetab light    License: Free
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http://notetab.com
Platform: Windows 95/98/2000/NT4

NoteTab Light is extremely powerful.  No syntax highlighting
though.

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Programmer's File Editor    License: Free
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No homepage, try http://www.winsite.com or http://www.simtel.com
Platform: Windows 3.1/95/98/2000

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Edit Plus        License: Shareware, 30 day, $30
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http://www.editplus.com
Platform: Windows 95/98

It has line numbers, color syntax highlighting, FTP upload/download
and
opening of a file.  It can handle the syntax for a wide variety of
languages (PHP, Perl, C, HTML) and is extensible for new features etc.

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PHPEd            License: Trial-14 day, $299
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http://www.phped.com or http://www.nusphere.com
Platform: Windows, Linux

NuSphere PHPEd award winning PHP IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) for PHP, provides a flexible, easy-to-use platform for
developing web sites using PHP, Perl, Python, JavaScript, C++, CSS
style sheets, and HTML. PHPEd also provides streamlined functionality
for debugging code, publishing projects to remote servers through FTP
and WebDAV, working with SOAP servers, and integrating with repository-
based code management systems such as CVS. It supports PHP software
development on all stages including coding, debugging, profiling and
publishing.

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HTML-Kit         License: Free
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http://www.chami.com/html-kit
Platform: Windows 95/98/2000/NT4

Very nice editor, customizable interface, syntax highlighting,
and a lot of other stuff...

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ScriptWorx       License: Free
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http://www.softlite.net/products/scriptworx
Platform: Windows 95/98/2000/NT4

Version 4 only has single document support, however v5 will
support multiple documents along with many nice features.

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Or if you are interested in a unix environment on your windows desktop
(including emacs) then check out the cygwin project...
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/

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Links (Overview):

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/HOWTO/PHP-HOWTO-9.html

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/PHP/Tools/

http://php.weblogs.com/editors

http://www.pcvoyager.com/dir/scripting_php.html

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http://phpeditors.dancinghippo.com/

has currently disappeared.

So type e.g. in your browser:

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&q=+site:phpeditors.dancinghippo.com+php+editor+dancing+hippo

then click the link 'Cached'

to see more information about most of this PHP editors.

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Links (alphabetically):

AceHTML Pro (Windows) - http://www.visicommedia.com/acehtml

Adobe GoLive (Windows, Mac) - http://www.adobe.com/products/golive

Amaya (Windows, Unix, MacOS-X) - http://www.w3.org/Amaya

Arachnophilia (Windows) - 
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html

Arisesoft Winsyntax (Windows) - http://www.winsyntax.com

ASPEdit (Windows) - 
http://www.brothersoft.com/Web_Author_HTML_Editors_ASPEdit_610.html

AswEdit (Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD) - http://www.iti.cs.tu-
bs.de/soft/asWedit

BBEdit (Mac) - http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml

Beauty++ (Windows) - http://www.max.co.yu/htmlbeauty

Bluefish (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD, Solaris and Tru64) - 
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl

Code-Genie (Windows) - http://www.code-genie.com

CoffeeCup (Linux)  - http://www.coffeecup.com/select/editor.html

ConText (Windows) - http://www.fixedsys.com/context

CREdit (Windows) - http://www.praven3.com/credit

Crimson Editor (Windows) (general program editor) - 
http://www.crimsoneditor.com

Dev-PHP - http://sourceforge.net/projects/devphp

DreamWeaver (Windows) - http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver

DzSoft PHP Editor (Windows) - http://www.dzsoft.com/dzphp.htm

EditPlus (Edit+) (Windows) - http://www.editplus.com

EMACS (Windows, Unix, FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS-X, MS DOS, NetBSD, 
OpenBSD, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix) - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs

eNotepad (Windows) - 
http://www.edisys.com/Products/eNotepad/enotepad.asp

Epsilon (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2) - http://www.lugaru.com

Folding Text Editor (FTE) (Windows console, DOS, OS/2, Linux console 
and an X port for many UNIX'es, including Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP, and 
Cygwin) - http://fte.sourceforge.net

Glimmer (Linux) - http://glimmer.sourceforge.net

GVim for PHP (Windows, Linux, Unix, VMS, OS/2) - 
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO.html

HAPEdit (Windows) - http://hapedit.free.fr

HomeSite (Windows) - http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite / 
http://www.wilk4.com/asp4hs/php4hs.htm

HTML-Kit (Windows) - http://www.chami.com/html-kit

Ide.php (Windows, Linux, Unix) - http://www.ekenberg.se/php/ide

Jed (Windows, Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX) - 
http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jedsoft/jed

K PHP Develop (Linux) - http://kphpdev.sourceforge.net

Kate (Linux) - http://www.kde.org/kate

Komodo (Windows, Linux) - http://www.activeperl.com/Products/Komodo

Maguma (Windows) - http://www.maguma.com/en/index.html

MPS HTMLGate XP (Windows) - 
http://www.mpsoftware.dk/software_htmlgate.htm

Multi-Edit (general program editor) (Windows) - 
http://www.multiedit.com

Namo WebEditor (Windows) - http://www.namo.com

Notetab light (Windows) - http://notetab.com

Pepper (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD) - http://www.hekkelman.com

PHP Coder - http://www.phpide.de

PHP Lens (Windows) - http://phplens.com

PHPEclipse (Windows) - http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net

PHPEd (Windows, Linux) - http://www.nusphere.com

PHPEdit (Windows) - http://www.phpedit.net

PHPTriad (Windows) - http://www.webattack.com/get/phptriad.shtml / 
http://www.phpgeek.com/phptriad.html

Programmer's Notepad (Windows) - 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnotepad

Proton (Windows) - http://www.meybohm.de/proton.html

QaDRAM (like Borland Delphi RAD) (Windows, Linux) - 
http://www.qadram.com

Quanta+ (Linux) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/quanta

SciTE (Windows, Linux, Solaris) - http://www.scintilla.org

ScriptWorx (Windows) - http://www.softlite.net/scriptworx/index.htm

SlickEdit (Windows, Linux, Unix) - http://www.slickedit.com

Sokkit (Windows) - http://www.sokkit.net / 
http://www.phpgeek.com/phptriad.html

SourceEdit (Windows) - http://www.brixoft.com/prodinfo.asp?id=1

Syn (Windows) - http://syn.sourceforge.net

Template Tamer (Windows) - http://www.templatetamer.com

TextPad (Windows) - http://www.textpad.com

TSE (general program editor) (Windows) - http://www.semware.com

tsWebEditor (Windows) - http://tswebeditor.net.tc

TurboPHP (IDE like Borland Delphi or VisualBasic) (Windows) - 
http://www.turbophp.com/turbo/

UltraEdit (general program editor) (Windows) - http://www.ultraedit.com

Vim (Windows, Linux, Unix, VMS, OS/2, Amiga, MacIntosh) - 
http://www.vim.org

Weaverslave (Windows) - http://www.weaverslave.de/en/index.php

Web Tools (Windows) - http://www.phpexperteditor.com/phpxedit.html

Winpad32 (Windows) - http://www.gena01.com/win32pad

Xorex (Windows, Linux, Unix) - http://www.xored.com/products.php

Zend PHP IDE (Windows, Linux, MacOS-X, FreeBSD, Solaris) - 
http://zend.com/store/products/zend-ide.php

Zeus (Windows) - http://www.zeusedit.com

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[Internet: see also:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1762/fid/45

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12213/fid/51

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