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    List of PHP editors

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    "List of PHP IDEs" redirects here. For a comparison of PHP integrated development environments, see Comparison of integrated development environments § PHP.

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

    Free editors

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    Editor License Latest Version Platform Autocompletion File Browser GUI builder Internal Browser Version Control PHP Debugger
    Linux macOS Windows Other Local FTP SFTP SSH
    Aptana Studio APL/ GPLv1 3.6.1 Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes ? Yes Yes ? With XDebug[1]
    Atom MIT 1.13.1 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD[2] Yes[3] ? No Yes ?
    Bluefish GPLv3 2.2.15 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD[4] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
    Brackets MIT 1.8 Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? No Yes ?
    CodeLite GPLv2 18.1 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD[5] Yes ? No Yes ?
    Eclipse PDT EPL 7.0 Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes ? Yes Yes Yes With XDebug[6]
    Geany GPLv2 1.29 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD[7] Yes ? Yes Yes ?
    gedit GPLv3 3.22.2 Yes[8] Yes Yes[8] FreeBSD Yes[9] ? Yes[9] Yes ? With XDebug[10]
    GNU Emacs GPLv3 27.1 Yes Yes Yes BSDs, OpenSolaris Yes dired (builtin) tramp (builitin) tramp (builtin) tramp (builitin) Yes Yes vc (builtin) ?
    jEdit GPLv2 5.5.0 Yes Yes Yes JVM No Yes Yes[11] Yes[11] Yes[12] No Yes ?
    Kate GPLv2 16.08.1 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes ?
    KWrite GPLv2 16.08.1 Yes Yes No FreeBSD No ? No Yes ?
    KDevelop[13] GPLv2 5.0.3 Yes Partial[14] Yes FreeBSD[15] Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ?
    Komodo Edit MPL 10.1.2 Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes[16] No[17]
    NetBeans CDDL/ GPLv2/ LGPLv2.1 26[18] Edit this on Wikidata (20 May 2025) [±] Yes Yes Yes JVM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes With XDebug[19]
    Notepad++ GPL 7.2.2 No[20] No Yes No Yes No No No No No No Yes With XDebug[21]
    SciTE GPLv2 3.7.1 Yes[22] Yes Yes FreeBSD[23] No ? No Yes ?
    Sublime Text Shareware 4113 Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
    TextMate GPLv1 1.5 No Yes No No Yes ? No Yes ?
    Vim Vim License 9.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes[24] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
    Visual Studio Code MIT This template is not used anymore. The latest stable and pre-release versions are maintained in Wikidata and they appear automatically in the main article for Visual Studio Code.


    		Yes Yes Yes No Yes[25] ? No Yes ?

    Cross-platform

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    • 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[26] 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 [27]
    • 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.[28]

    Windows

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    • 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

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    • Coda (web development software) – Shareware IDE/Editor
    • Smultron
    • TextWrangler – Supports SFTP and FTP

    Linux

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    • gedit
    • gPHPEdit
    • Kate – Supports any file access protocol that is supported by KIO. This includes HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMB and WebDAV.
    • KDevelop – Supports everything as Kate above with addition of references of functions and syntax parser.
    • Kwrite

    Proprietary editors

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    • 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)[29]
    • 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,[30] 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

    References

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    1. ^ "How to debug php in Aptana Studio". Archived from the original on 7 August 2013.
    2. ^ Instructions for building Atom on FreeBSD are all that are officially available. No official binary releases are available.
    3. ^ With the atom-autocomplete-php package.
    4. ^ "FreshPorts -- www/bluefish: HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer". freshports.org.
    5. ^ "FreshPorts -- editors/codelite: Open Source IDE for C/C++". freshports.org.
    6. ^ "Debugging using XDebug – Eclipsepedia".
    7. ^ "Third-Party Packages | Geany". geany.org.
    8. ^ a b Outdated packages available only: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit.
    9. ^ a b Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-phpide
    10. ^ Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-dbgp-plugin
    11. ^ a b With the FTP plugin
    12. ^ With the SSH Console plugin
    13. ^ "KDevelop PHP Support". Retrieved 8 January 2024.
    14. ^ No pre-built binaries are available. Build instructions are available for macOS.
    15. ^ devel/kdevelop-kde4 Port
    16. ^ With the Komodin Git addon
    17. ^ [1] The PHP debugger is supported in Komodo IDE, not in Komodo Edit
    18. ^ "Apache NetBeans 26". 20 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
    19. ^ "Debugging PHP Source Code in the NetBeans IDE".
    20. ^ Will run in Wine, however
    21. ^ "Debugging PHP using Xdebug and Notepad++ : Part I". 25 January 2009.
    22. ^ But it is not free
    23. ^ editors/scite Port
    24. ^ Has been ported to virtually every Unix/Unix-like system and various others. Reference: download : vim online.
    25. ^ With the PHP IntelliSense extension.
    26. ^ Henry, Alan (5 October 2016). "Atom, the Text Editor from GitHub, Goes Free and Open-Source". Lifehacker.
    27. ^ Bacon, Jono (2007). Practical PHP and MySQL : building eight dynamic web applications. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780132239974.
    28. ^ How to Debug PHP with Vim and XDebug on Linux
    29. ^ "Cloud9 – Your development environment, in the cloud".
    30. ^ "PHP support in SourceLair". SourceLair Help.
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