Smallest IDE for PHP with code-completion? [closed]

Answer 1

PHP Expert Editor is a fairly small app that allows editing of multiple files, has syntax highlighting and integrates with PHP to do syntax checking. I've been using it for years.

Answer 2

SciTE is quite good for an advanced, lightweight editor. Only downside in this scenario is that you'll have to add code completion and file tree via plugins. Thankfully plugins are very simple to make.

Answer 3

I use notepad++ most of the time. But you could try out this free IDE which I think fits your bill Codelobster It's around 13mb

Answer 4

Netbeans is the best performing PHP editor with code completion that I have used; that said, it's by no means a lightweight editor. But I don't think any kind of editor with code completion is going to be truly lightweight.

Answer 5

The best PHP IDE now in production would be Zend Studio, but it's not free. So the closest would be Eclipse PDT, but you don't like it.

Aptana Studio for PHP was a lot better, but was discontinued, and Aptana became an IDE for JS and Ruby now, but I tried to save what's left of it, so it's still available.

So far I didn't find anything better than Aptana Studio for PHP.

Big throwback though - it only supports syntax of PHP 5.2.

Aptana is also one of the greatest IDE for Javascript, and HTML+CSS editing is also a step further than in NetBeans (code completion for CSS selectors, based on HTML).

Aptana also has support for Smarty template engine, which is great for me.

Best part - no installation required. Just unzip and run. It only requires JRE to be installed, and most of us do have it installed. And, it may create conflicts with Eclipse projects, so for a clean experiment, open a project that contains no Eclipse service files.

Answer 6

Try Komodo Edit or Komodo IDE. It has all PHP assistance features included and even debugging (in IDE).

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide

It has some bugs like PHP variables showing up in JavaScript autocomplete.

Try the v6 beta: http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads