List of PHP editors

This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language.

Free editors

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! Aptana Studio

| 3.6.1

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! Atom

| 1.13.1

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! Bluefish

| 2.2.15

! Brackets

| 1.8

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! CodeLite

| 18.1

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! Eclipse PDT

| 7.0

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! Geany

| 1.29

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! gedit

| 3.22.2

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! GNU Emacs

| 27.1

! jEdit

| 5.5.0

! Kate

| 16.08.1

! KWrite

| 16.08.1

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! KDevelop

| 5.0.3

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! Komodo Edit

| 10.1.2

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! NetBeans

! Notepad++

| 7.2.2

! SciTE

| 3.7.1

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!Sublime Text

|Shareware

|4113

| ?

! TextMate

| 1.5

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! Vim

| 9.0

! Visual Studio Code

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Cross-platform

Aptana Studio – Eclipse-based IDE, able to use PDT plugins, visual JS editor. Open-source, free project. (Community edition merged in).
Atom – free and open-source text editor with out-of-the-box PHP support.
Bluefish – free and open-source advanced editor with many web specific functions, has PHP syntax highlighting, auto-completion, function list, PHP function documentation, WebDAV, FTP, and SSH/SFTP support for uploading
Brackets – free and open-source editor in HTML5/NodeJS by Adobe Team the best for integration frontend
CodeLite – an open source, cross platform IDE for C/C++ and PHP. The built-in plugins supports SVN, SSH/SFTP access, Git database browsing and others.
Eclipse – PHP Development Tools (PDT) and PHPEclipse projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, database modelling, SSH/FTP access, database navigation, Trac integration, and others.
Editra – open source editor. Syntax highlighting and (partial) code completion for PHP + HTML and other IDE-like features like code browser etc.
Emacs – advanced text editor. The nXhtml addon has special support for PHP (and other template languages). The major mode web-mode.el is designed for editing mixed HTML templates.
Geany – syntax highlighting for HTML + PHP. Provides PHP function list.
jEdit – free/open source editor. Supports SFTP and FTP.
Komodo Edit – general purpose scripting language editor with support for PHP. Free version of the commercial ActiveState Komodo IDE.
Netbeans – IDE with PHP support and integration with web standards. Supports SFTP and FTP. Full support for SVN and Git since 7.2 and powerful plugin support for added functionality.
SciTE – PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via Lua API.
Vim – provides PHP syntax highlighting, debugging.

Windows

ConTEXT – *No longer under development* Freeware editor with syntax highlighting.
Crimson Editor – Lightweight editor. Supports FTP.
Microsoft WebMatrix – A combined editor, server and publishing environment, syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, Razor, node.js, C# and JavaScript and publishing through WebDeploy and FTP. Supports multiple file encodings as of version 2.
Notepad2 – Simple editor with syntax highlighting
Notepad++ – FLOSS multi-language editor with macro support, syntax highlighting (possible export to HTML), code completion, php.net function reference, foldable code blocks etc.; expandable via plugins, e.g. (S)FTP support, version control (Git, SVN), documentation generators, snippet support, spell checking, custom classes completion, code beautifiers
PSPad – Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.
RJ TextEd – Text editor with many great features

macOS

Coda (web development software) – Shareware IDE/Editor
Smultron
TextWrangler – Supports SFTP and FTP

Linux

gedit
gPHPEdit
Kate – Supports any file access protocol that is supported by KIO. This includes HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMB and WebDAV.
KDevelop – Supports everything as Kate above with addition of references of functions and syntax parser.
Kwrite

Proprietary editors

ActiveState Komodo IDE – Support for PHP syntax checking, debugging, trial available (NOTE: As of 2020, ActiveState Komodo is now completely free, and only requires that you register an account in order to use)
Adobe Dreamweaver – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
BBEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
Cloud9 – Online editor (supports multiple languages)
Coda – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
CodeCharge Studio – Supports FTP
Codelobster – Editor with syntax highlighting, debugger, code validation, supports FTP.
Codenvy – Cloud development environment.
EmEditor
HyperEdit – Integrates PHP, JavaScript and HTML in an only interface WYSIWYG.
JetBrains PhpStorm – PHP IDE with editor, on-the-fly code analysis and other web development specific tools including FTP/SFTP synchronization; Trial available
Komodo IDE – Cross-platform integrated development environment for PHP as well as Python, Ruby and Perl.
Microsoft Expression Web – Full PHP support with syntax highlighting, etc.; Trial available
PHPEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP
PHP Tools for Visual Studio PHP syntax highlighting, debugger, code validation, testing, support for other languages, among others. One- month trial available
Rapid PHP Editor – Support for PHP syntax checking, auto-complete, debug and support for CSS, Javascript and HTML
SlickEdit
Smultron
SourceLair – Online IDE for PHP, as well as JavaScript and Python
TextPad – Trial available
UltraEdit – Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
Zend Studio – (Cross platform) professional PHP IDE, based on the PHP Development Tools plugin for the Eclipse platform; Trial available