Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Best IDEs for PHP development


An IDE is a good way to simplify the coding and speed up the development process of a PHP website. Many IDEs with various features are available in the market. But, which are the best ones? Read the article to find out.

To get an attractive and feature rich PHP website it is necessary to have a good development environment. While developing websites the developers often need to edit HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. IDE’s and Editors help the programmers to simplify the coding in a effective manner. There are many free and commercial IDE’s available in the market. Some of the best are briefed out here.

Eclipse




Eclipse is one of the best IDEs for PHP development. It has two plugins supporting PHP. The first one called the PHP IDE project is an Eclipse foundation project. It means that it is released under the Eclipse license and is developed using tools and processes of the Eclipse foundation. PHP Eclipse, the second one is independently developed. The Eclipse IDE supports Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Installation of the IDE includes all necessary tools to elaborate on PHP. It also involves Data Tools Platform that enable controlling the databank, plug-ins for interaction with JavaScript, C / C + +, XML editor and many other tools.

Komodo ActiveState




This one is a professional IDE for major web languages including Python, PHP and Perl. It comes with a complete set of tools that enable faster development. It has a solid code intelligence engine that scans all the language installations  to find custom extensions, such as PEAR modules. It supports integration with CVS, Subversion, and Perforce and also allows direct FTP transfer of code to the server.

Zend Studio




It is one of the most comprehensive PHP IDEs available. Developed by official ZEND PHP team, this IDE has very powerful PHP and Javascript debugging, team collaboration and remote server tools. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It comes with almost every feature a developer needs: PHP V4, PHP V5 -- the whole deal. It takes a long time to download, but it is really worth it.

Try all these IDEs and check which one is the best of them. You can also share your ideas regarding these IDEs with us.

IDEs are greatly useful for any PHP Programmer to make code very simple & compelling while PHP Development.

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