What is the best IDE for PHP? [closed]

Answer 1

I use and like Rapid PHP.

Answer 2

NetBeans. Check out 7.0.1.

It supports FTP/SFTP synchronization, integrates well with Subversion, CVS, Mercurial and even with Git (with plugin). Also, it supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, popular frameworks and more.

And its free.

Answer 3

To get you started, here is a list of PHP Editors (Wikipedia).

Answer 4

Too bad no one mentioned phpDesigner. It's really the best IDE I've came across (and I believe I've tried them all).

The main pro of this one is that it's NOT Java based. This keeps the whole thing quick.

Features:

• Intelligent Syntax Highlighter - automatic switch between PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript depending on your position!
• PHP (both version 4 and 5 are supported)
• SQL (MySQL, MSSQL 2000, MSSQL 7, Ingres, Interbase 6, Oracle, Sybase)
• HTML/XHTML
• CSS (both version 1 and 2.1 are supported)
• JavaScript
• VBScript
• Java
• C#
• Perl
• Python
• Ruby
• Smarty

PHP:

• Support for both PHP 4 and PHP 5
• Code Explorer for PHP (includes, classes, extended classes, interfaces, properties, functions, constants and variables)
• Code Completion (IntelliSense) for PHP - code assist as you type
• Code Tip (code hint) for PHP - code assist as you type
• Work with any PHP frameworks (access classes, functions, variables, etc. on the fly)
• PHP object oriented programming (OOP) including nested objects
• Support for PHP heredoc
• Enclose strings with single- or double quotes, linefeed, carriage return or tabs
• PHP server variables
• PHP statement templates (if, else, then, while…)
• Powerful PHP Code Beautifier with many configurations and profile support
• phpDocumentor wizard
• Add phpDocumentor documentation to functions and classes with one click!
• phpDocumentor tags
• Comment or uncomment with one click!
• Jump to any declaration with filtering by classes, interfaces, functions, variables or constants

Debug (PHP):

• Debug with Xdebug
• Breakpoints
• Step by step debugging
• Step into
• Step over
• Run to cursor
• Run until return
• Call stack
• Watches
• Context variables
• Evaluate
• Profiling
• Multiple sessions
• Evaluation tip
• Catch errors

Answer 5

Eclipse PDT is very nice.

Answer 6

I'm using Zend Studio. It has decent syntax highlighting, code completion and such. But the best part is that you can debug PHP code, either with a standalone PHP interpreter, or even on a live web server as you "browse" along your pages. You get the usual Visual Studio keys, breakpoints, watches and call stack, which is almost indispensable for bug hunting. No more "alert()"-cluttered debugged source code :)