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Best free php IDE

stephenlane80 · 2009-01-14 23:23:46

Whats the best free php ide available apart from eclipse with the php plugin, i think eclipse is a little HEAVY !! Something with intellisence would be a big plus

14-01-2009 11:23pm

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stephenlane80

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Whats the best free php ide available apart from eclipse with the php plugin, i think eclipse is a little HEAVY !!

Something with intellisence would be a big plus

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#2 14-01-2009 11:25pm

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textpad
notepad++

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#3 15-01-2009 12:37am

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i like the sound of notepad++, textpad doesnt seem to be free

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#4 15-01-2009 11:07am

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Have a look at Codelobster. I use it from time to time. I complained last year that they didn't support syntax highlighting properly and they were kind enough to fix it in their next release. It's free too by the way.

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#5 15-01-2009 11:59am

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In Windows I've started to use Komodo Edit, which I've found very much to my liking.

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#6 15-01-2009 2:04pm

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http://www.roadsend.com/home/index.php?pageID=compiler

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#7 15-01-2009 3:52pm

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thanks for the suggestions, i think roadsend is quite cool, since it has its own php implementation and doesnt require apache or IIS to be instaled. I think at the moment its a toss up between notepad++ and roadsend

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#8 15-01-2009 5:55pm

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NetBeans Rocks for PHP

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#9 17-01-2009 10:36pm

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Páid wrote: »

NetBeans Rocks for PHP

Totally agree with this. I always used Zend Studio. I switched to Zend Studio for Eclipse for a while but didn't really like it. Decided to try NetBeans a few weeks ago (had always used it for Java) and haven't looked back. The code completion takes a bit of getting used to (you have to pause after you type the $ or ->) but once you do it's great.

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#10 19-01-2009 5:08am

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I vote for Netbeans. Very simple and lovely to use.
Also good for Javascript, CSS and (x)html.
There is also a separate debugger you can wire up to it.
Its free!

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#11 19-01-2009 4:20pm

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Another vote for Netbeans... you can download the web dev kit version or just a php version which makes it very light weight.

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#12 19-01-2009 10:16pm

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Never tried Netbeans, but I swear by Aptana. OK, it's for more than just PHP, but it's quite good.

http://www.aptana.com/

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#13 24-02-2009 11:07am

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clobster wrote: »

Hi,
see also new free very powerful PHP IDE - http://www.codelobster.com

You're a bit late, I mentioned that last month .

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#14 24-02-2009 12:55pm

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malice_ wrote: »

You're a bit late, I mentioned that last month .

And thanks for that, it's made my life a lot easier.

Think there's a new version out in the last few days, keep getting a popup telling me to upgrade it.

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