List of PHP editors

This article contains a list of editors suitable for use with the PHP scripting language.

Free editors

Windows

• ConTEXT - Free-ware editor with syntax highlighting.
• Crimson Editor - lightweight editor. Supports FTP
• Notepad++ - Supports FTP
• Programmer's Notepad
• PSPad - Supports FTP
• HTML-Kit

Linux

• Bluefish - Supports any protocol that is supported by GNOME VFS. (FTP, SSH...)
• Geany
• gedit
• gPHPEdit
• Kate - 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

• Smultron
• TextWrangler - Supports SFTP and FTP

Multiple OS

• ActiveState Komodo Edit
• Aptana
• Eclipse - PHPEclipse and PHP Development Tools projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, Database Modeling, SSH/FTP access, Database Navigation, Trac integration, and others.
• Emacs - Advanced text editor. The nXhtml addon has special support for PHP (and other template languages).
• jEdit - Versatile Free/Open source editor. Supports SFTP and FTP.
• nano
• NetBeans - [Early Access Preview] http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/final/
• SciTE
• Vim - Simple yet powerful text editor.

Commercial editors

• ActiveState Komodo IDE
• Adobe Dreamweaver - Supports SFTP and FTP
• Adobe Golive - Discontinued as of April 2008
• BBEdit - Supports FTP
• Coda
• Delphi for PHP
• EditPlus - Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
• EmEditor
• Notepad
• PHPEdit - Supports SFTP and FTP
• Rapid PHP - Supports SFTP and FTP
• skEdit
• TextMate - Trial available
• TextPad - Trial available
• Top PHP Studio - Supports FTP
• UltraEdit - Supports SFTP and FTP
• Zend Studio - Supports SFTP and FTP

External links

• PHP editor list
• Reviewed PHP editors
• Free PHP Editor - Freeware Editors for PHP