List of PHP editors

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

Free editors

Cross Platform

• ActiveState Komodo Edit
• Bluefish – Supports any protocol that is supported by GnomeVFS. (SSH…)
• Eclipse – PHPEclipse and PHP Development Tools projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, Database modelling, 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).
• 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.
• Vim – provides PHP syntax highlighting.
• SciTE – fast, PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via Lua API:LUA

Windows

• Alleycode HTML Editor — Freeware editor with syntax highlighting for both php and html.
• ConTEXT — Freeware editor with syntax highlighting.
• CodeIgniter — Its goal is to enable [developers] to develop projects much faster than…writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries.
• CodeLobster
• Crimson Editor — Lightweight editor. Supports FTP.
• Dev-PHP IDE
• HTML-Kit — Syntax highlighting, Supports FTP.
• Intype — Lightweight editor. Alpha version.
• Notepad++ — Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.
• PHPEdit — Free for student use, shareware, counts down from 30 days after install.
• Programmer’s Notepad
• PSPad — Supports FTP.

Linux

• Geany
• vi
• 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
• TextMate
• BBEdit – Supports FTP
• Smultron
• TextWrangler – Supports SFTP and FTP

Commercial editors

• Adobe Dreamweaver – Supports SFTP and FTP
• Code Crusader IDE – Trial available
• Delphi for PHP
• EditPlus – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
• EmEditor
• JetBrains PhpStorm – professional PHP IDE with advanced editor, on-the-fly code analysis and other web development specific tools including FTP/SFTP syncronization.
• Microsoft Expression Web – Full PHP support with syntax highlighting, etc; Trial available
• PHPEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP
• phpDesigner – Supports SFTP and FTP, syntax highlighting for many programming languages; Trial available
• skEdit
• SlickEdit
• 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.
• Zend Studio – Supports SFTP and FTP (Eclipse with Zend’s Commercial Plug-in)
• PHPEd – Supports FTP, SFTP and WebDav
• WeBuilder