List of PHP editors

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

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Free editors

Editor License Latest VersionPlatformAutocompletionFile Browser GUI builder Internal BrowserVersion ControlPHP Debugger
Linux macOS Windows Other LocalFTPSFTPSSH
Aptana Studio APL/ GPLv1 3.6.1YesYesYes JVM Yes?YesYes?With XDebug [1]
Atom MIT 1.13.1YesYesYes FreeBSD [2] Yes [3] ?NoYes ?
BluefishGPLv32.2.9YesYesYes FreeBSD [4] Yes?YesYes ?
Brackets MIT1.8YesYesYesNoYes?NoYes ?
CodeLite GPLv217.0YesYesYes FreeBSD [5] Yes?NoYes ?
Eclipse PDT EPL 7.0YesYesYes JVM Yes?YesYesYesWith XDebug [6]
Geany GPLv21.29YesYesYes FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD [7] Yes?YesYes ?
gedit GPLv33.22.2Yes [8] YesYes [8] FreeBSD Yes [9] ?Yes [9] Yes?With XDebug [10]
GNU Emacs GPLv327.1YesYesYes BSDs, OpenSolarisYesdired (builtin)tramp (builitin)tramp (builtin)tramp (builitin)YesYesvc (builtin) ?
jEdit GPLv25.5.0YesYesYes JVM NoYesYes [11] Yes [11] Yes [12] NoYes ?
Kate GPLv216.08.1YesYesYesFreeBSDNoYesYesYesYesNoNoYes ?
KWrite GPLv216.08.1YesYesNoFreeBSDNo?NoYes ?
KDevelop [13] GPLv25.0.3YesPartial [14] YesFreeBSD [15] Yes?YesYesYes ?
Komodo Edit MPL10.1.2YesYesYes ?Yes?YesYes [16] No [17]
NetBeans CDDL/ GPLv2/ LGPLv2.1 21 [18]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (20 February 2024) [±] YesYesYes JVM YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesWith XDebug [19]
Notepad++ GPL7.2.2No [20] NoYesNoYesNoNoNoNoNoNoYesWith XDebug [21]
SciTE GPLv23.7.1Yes [22] YesYes FreeBSD [23] No?NoYes ?
Sublime Text Shareware 4113YesYesYes?Yes
TextMate GPLv11.5NoYesNoNoYes?NoYes ?
Vim Vim License9.0YesYesYesYes [24] YesYesYesYesYesNoYesYes
Visual Studio Code MITThis 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.YesYesYesNoYes [25] ?NoYes ?

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References

  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. 1 2 Outdated packages available only: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit.
  9. 1 2 Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-phpide
  10. ↑ Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-dbgp-plugin
  11. 1 2 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. ↑ The PHP debugger is supported in Komodo IDE, not in Komodo Edit
  18. ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  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. ↑ How to Debug PHP with Vim and XDebug on Linux
  28. ↑ "Cloud9 – Your development environment, in the cloud".
  29. ↑ "PHP support in SourceLair". SourceLair Help.
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