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PHP Programming/Editors
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For reviews of numerous PHP editors, see PHP-editors.
BBedit, Programmers Code Editor made by Bare Bones Software (Mac OS X)
Bluefish - PHP Open Source editor (Linux/Unix)
Codelobster PHP Edition - free portable PHP IDE with support Drupal, Joomla, Smarty, JQuery, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony, Yii and WordPress. (Windows)
Dev-PHP - Full-featured IDE for PHP (Windows)
Dreamweaver - PHP/HTML/CFML Integrated Developer Environment (Windows/Mac OS X)
Emacs - Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Supports PHP by php-mode.el (Most platforms) (GPL License)* gPHPEdit - PHP/HTML For the GNOME Desktop (Linux)
Enginsite - Fully loaded with just about everything that you would expect from a modern software development environment (Windows)
Kantharos IDE - Rapid php scripting with built in debugger (Windows)
Komodo IDE - IDE for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Javascript and others. (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X)
Jedit - Open Source editor that has many PHP-centric plugins available such as error checking, ftp & structure browser (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X)
KDevelop - Integrated Development Environment (Linux/Unix)
Kate - Supports a variety of network protocols transparently, kde style - lighter than KDevelop (Linux/Unix)
NetBeans PHP IDE - NetBeans PHP IDE (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X)
Notepad - The built-in editor in Windows.
Notepad++ - A great upgrade to Notepad, brings many new features.
NuSphere PhpED - PHP IDE with support for HTML, CSS, XML, SMARTY, XHTML and other with a powerful debugger. (Windows/Linux)
PHP Designer - Free (deprecated) PHP editor (Windows)
PHPEclipse - PHP module for Eclipse IDE (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X)
PHPEdit - A nice PHP Editor for Windows (Windows)
PHPRunner - Wizard-based interface development (Windows)
PhpStorm - Commercial feature-rich PHP IDE from JetBrains (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux).
Quanta Plus - KDE based editor, supporting PHP and other markup languages (Linux) (GPL License)
SciTE - Scintilla-based editor (Windows/Linux)
Taco HTML Edit - PHP/HTML editor with live previews of generated pages (Mac OS X)
TextMate - Programmers code and markup editor with support for PHP (Mac OS X)
Trustudio - PHP IDE built on Eclipse (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X)
Vim - Terminal-based text editor, supporting PHP markup (Most platforms) (GPL License)
Weaverslave - Open source editor, supporting PHP and other markup languages (Open Source) (Windows) (Custom License)
Zend - Zend Development Environment by Zend - The PHP company (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X)