List of PHP editors

This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language.

Free editors

Cross-platform

• GoInCloud - An powerful online IDE for developing PHP projects with online php debugger.
• Aptana Studio - Eclipse Based IDE, able to use PDT plugins, visual JS Editor. Open-Source, Free project. (Community edition merged in).
• Bluefish - A multipurpose editor with PHP syntax support, in-line PHP documentation, etc. With GVFS, supports SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, and SMB.
• Eclipse - PHPEclipse and PHP Development Tools projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, Database modelling, SSH/FTP access, Database Navigation, Trac integration, and others.
• Editra - Versatile Open source editor. Syntax highlighting and (partial) code completition 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).
• Geany - Syntax highlighting for HTML + PHP. Provides PHP function list.
• jEdit - Versatile Free/Open source editor. Supports SFTP and FTP.
• Netbeans IDE - A dedicated PHP coding environment and complete integration with web standards. Supports SFTP and FTP. SVN support can be added using plugins.
• SciTE - fast, PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via Lua API:LUA
• Vim - provides PHP syntax highlighting.

Windows

• Alleycode HTML Editor — Freeware editor with syntax highlighting for both php and html.
• CodeLobster - Free PHP IDE
• ConTEXT — Freeware editor with syntax highlighting.
• Crimson Editor — Lightweight editor. Supports FTP.
• Dev-PHP IDE — Lightweight IDE. Supports FTP & SFTP, CVS & SVN, Multiple languages with highlighters, Xdebug, etc.
• EditPad Lite - A freeware and simple editor with auto text indent.
• Gizmo Editor - Freeware editor with syntax highlighting for php, html, css, java, and much more.
• HAPedit - A free PHP Editor with intellisense support
• HTML-Kit — Syntax highlighting, Supports FTP.
• Intype — Lightweight editor. Alpha version.
• Microsoft WebMatrix - A combined editor, server and publishing environment, syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, Razor, c# and JavaScript and publishing through WebDeploy and FTP.
• Notepad2 — Simple editor with syntax highlighting
• Notepad++ — Supports FTP & SFTP via plugin; syntax highlighting, and one of the most used editors in Windows^{[citation needed]}
• NoteTab — Broad editor, 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.
• PHPEdit — Free for student use, shareware, counts down from 30 days after install.
• PHP Expert Editor
• Programmer's Notepad
• PSPad — Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.
• RadPHP (formerly Delphi for PHP) — This is a commercial product, free for a 30 day trial
• Rapid PHP
• tsWebEditor - Syntax highlighting and code hints for PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, (all in the same file even) and many more languages. Supports FTP; powerful user-defined keyboard for UTF, and so much more. Completely free.

Linux

• Aptana
• Emacs
• gedit
• gPHPEdit
• Joe's Own Editor
• Kwrite
• Kate - Supports any protocol that is supported by KDE. (FTP, SSH...)
• KDevelop - Supports any protocol that is supported by KDE. (FTP, SSH...)
• Quanta Plus - Supports any protocol that is supported by KDE. (FTP, SSH...)

Mac OS X

• Espresso - Support FTP, SFTP and Amazon S3; Trial available
• Coda - Support FTP, SFTP, SVN; Trial available
• Smultron
• TextWrangler - Supports SFTP and FTP
• Aquamacs Emacs a GUI for GNU Emacs, made for Mac OS X

Commercial editors

• ActiveState Komodo IDE - Support for PHP syntax checking, debugging, trial available
• Adobe Dreamweaver - Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
• BBEdit - Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
• CodeCharge Studio - Supports FTP
• Code Crusader IDE - Trial available
• CodeLobster PHP - Professional edition adds support for various frameworks
• EditPlus - Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
• EmEditor
• HyperEdit - Integrates PHP, javascript and html in an only interface WYSIWYG.
• Microsoft Expression Web - Full PHP support with syntax highlighting, etc.; Trial available
• NuSphere PhpED - A PHP developemnt 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.
• phpDesigner - Supports SFTP and FTP, syntax highlighting for many programming languages; Trial available
• PHPEdit - Supports SFTP and FTP
• JetBrains PhpStorm - professional PHP IDE with advanced editor, on-the-fly code analysis and other web development specific tools including FTP/SFTP synchronization; Trial available
• Cayoren PHP Studio - Trial available
• Embarcadero RadPHP (formerly Delphi for PHP) - Focus on Web (Facebook, Google) and mobile (iOS, Android) development; Trial available
• Rapid PHP - Trial available
• skEdit
• SlickEdit
• Sublime Text - Commercial multi-language text editor with syntax highlighting. Trial available.
• TextMate - Trial available
• TextPad - Trial available
• Top PHP Studio - Supports FTP
• UltraEdit - Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial Available
• VS.Php for Visual Studio - PHP IDE for Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010. Full intellisense and debugging support for native PHP applications.
• WeBuilder - Syntax highlighting for ASP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby; Trial available
• Zend Studio - Supports SFTP and FTP (Eclipse with Zend's Commercial Plug-in)

External links

• Reviewed PHP editors - Commercial and Freeware
• Free PHP Editor - Freeware Editors for PHP

Online free editors

• GoInCloud - An powerful online IDE for developing PHP projects with online php debugger.
• Online free php editor - Simple and free online PHP editor for editing files on FTP server
• shiftEDIT - An online IDE for developing PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript with built-in (S)FTP. There is a free, fully functional version, plus a premium version with SSL.