Friday, 16 March 2007

Beginner's Guide to Choose a PHP Editor

Aqeel Zafar in a new post over the Linuxpakistan web site gives a brief guide to help beginners how to choose an editor for PHP. He lists some few factors like syntax highlighting, auto-complete functions, plugins, last release date and such to choose an IDE for any language. He gives the following PHP Editors:

gPHPEdit

Latest Version: 1.0 beta (0.9.91) released on 2006-06-05

Features: syntax highlighting, Auto-Complete Functions(up to PHP 4.2), Class/Function browser, Context sensitive help, Block Folding

You can download it here

BlueFish
Latest Version: 1.1.2 released on 2007-01-03

Features: syntax highlighting, Class/Function browser, Faster, Uses less memory than other editors

You can download it here

jEdit
Latest Version: 4.3pre9 released on 2007-01-20

Features: Syntax highlighting, Block folding, Plugins.

You can download it here

He comments that it is written in Java and has a lots of plugins. But he says it does not have an auto-complete plugin.

Screem
Latest Version: 0.17.1 released on 2006-01-23

Features: Syntax highlighting, Function list (using Ctags), Page Templates, Broken link checking
here

Scite
Latest Stable: 1.72 released on 2007-01-15

Features: Syntax highlighting, Function list

You can download it here

He says, PHP support is not present by default in Scite, but you can easily download it from the ‘Extras’ section on the website.

Quanta Plus
Latest Version: 3.5.6 released on 2007-01-26
He says it’s a KDE's default web developing tool

You can go here for a complete list of editors.