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This article contains a '''list of [[text editor]]s''' with features specific to the [[PHP]] scripting language. <!-- NOTE: and their own WP articles! -->

==Free editors==
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! rowspan = "2" style="width:100px;" | [[Editor]]
! rowspan = "2" | [[Software license|License]]
! rowspan = "2" | Latest Version
! colspan = "4" | Platform
! rowspan = "2" | Autocompletion
! colspan="4" |File Browser
! rowspan = "2" | [[GUI builder]]
! rowspan = "2" | Internal Browser
! rowspan = "2" | Version Control
! rowspan = "2" | PHP Debugger
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! [[Linux]]
! [[macOS]]
! [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
! style="width:50px;" | [[Computing platform|Other]]
!Local
!FTP
!SFTP
!SSH
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! [[Aptana Studio]]
| {{yes|APL/ [[GNU General Public License|GPLv1]]}}
| 3.6.1
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[Java Virtual Machine|JVM]]}}
| {{yes}}
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| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
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| {{yes|With XDebug<ref>{{cite web |url=http://php.tutorialhorizon.com/how-to-debug-php-in-aptana-studio/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807203112/http://php.tutorialhorizon.com/how-to-debug-php-in-aptana-studio |archive-date=7 August 2013 |title=How to debug php in Aptana Studio}}</ref>}}
|-
! [[Atom (text editor)|Atom]]
| {{yes|[[MIT License|MIT]]}}
| 1.13.1
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[FreeBSD]]}}<ref>Instructions for [https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/docs/build-instructions/freebsd.md building Atom on FreeBSD] are all that are officially available. No official binary releases are available.</ref>
| {{yes|Yes<ref>With the [https://atom.io/packages/atom-autocomplete-php atom-autocomplete-php] package.</ref>}}
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||?
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
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! [[Bluefish (software)|Bluefish]]
| {{yes|GPLv3}}
| 2.2.15
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[FreeBSD]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freshports.org/www/bluefish/|title=FreshPorts -- www/bluefish: HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer|website=freshports.org}}</ref>}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
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! [[Brackets (text editor)|Brackets]]
| {{yes|MIT}}
| 1.8
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
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||?
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
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! [[CodeLite]]
| {{yes|GPLv2}}
| 18.1
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[FreeBSD]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freshports.org/editors/codelite/|title=FreshPorts -- editors/codelite: Open Source IDE for C/C++|website=freshports.org}}</ref>}}
| {{yes}}
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| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
|-
! [[Eclipse PDT]]
| {{yes|[[Eclipse Public License|EPL]]}}
| 7.0
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[Java Virtual Machine|JVM]]}}
| {{yes}}
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||?
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|With XDebug<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.eclipse.org/Debugging_using_XDebug|title = Debugging using XDebug – Eclipsepedia}}</ref>}}
|-
! [[Geany]]
| {{yes|GPLv2}}
| 1.29
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]], [[OpenBSD]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geany.org/download/third-party/|title=Third-Party Packages &#124; Geany|website=geany.org}}</ref>}}
| {{yes}}
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| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
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! [[gedit]]
| {{yes|GPLv3}}
| 3.22.2
| {{yes|Yes<ref name="gedit-outdated">Outdated packages available only: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit.</ref>}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|Yes<ref name="gedit-outdated" />}}
| {{yes|[[FreeBSD]]}}
| {{yes|Yes<ref name="gedit-phpide">Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-phpide</ref>}}
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| {{yes|Yes<ref name="gedit-phpide" />}}
| {{yes}}
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| {{yes|With XDebug<ref>Plugin: https://github.com/addiks/gedit-dbgp-plugin</ref>}}
|-
! [[GNU Emacs]]
| {{yes|GPLv3}}
| 27.1
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]]s, OpenSolaris}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|dired (builtin)}}
| {{yes|tramp (builitin)}}
| {{dunno|tramp (builtin)}}
| {{yes|tramp (builitin)}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|vc (builtin)}}
| {{dunno}}
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! [[jEdit]]
| {{yes|GPLv2}}
| 5.5.0
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[Java Virtual Machine|JVM]]}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
|{{yes|Yes<ref name="auto">With the [http://plugins.jedit.org/plugindoc/FTP/ FTP] plugin</ref>}}
|{{yes|Yes<ref name="auto"/>}}
|{{yes|Yes<ref>With the [http://plugins.jedit.org/plugindoc/SshConsole/ SSH Console] plugin</ref>}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
|-
! [[Kate (text editor)|Kate]]
| {{yes|GPLv2}}
| 16.08.1
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|FreeBSD}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
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! [[KWrite]]
| {{yes|GPLv2}}
| 16.08.1
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes|FreeBSD}}
| {{no}}
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| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
|-
! [[KDevelop]]<ref>{{Cite web
|title = KDevelop PHP Support
|url = https://apps.kde.org/kdev-php/
|access-date = 2024-01-08
}}</ref>
| {{yes|GPLv2}}
| 5.0.3
| {{yes}}
| {{partial|Partial<ref>No pre-built binaries are available. [https://community.kde.org/Mac Build instructions] are available for macOS.</ref>}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|FreeBSD<ref>[https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/kdevelop-kde4/ devel/kdevelop-kde4] Port</ref>}}
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! [[Komodo Edit]]
| {{yes|MPL}}
| 10.1.2
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| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{dunno}}
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| {{yes}}
| {{yes|Yes<ref>With the [http://community.komodoide.com/packages/addons/komodin-git/ Komodin Git] addon</ref>}}
| {{no|No<ref>[https://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit] The PHP debugger is supported in Komodo IDE, not in Komodo Edit</ref>}}
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! [[NetBeans]]
| {{yes|[[Common Development and Distribution License|CDDL]]/ GPLv2/ [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPLv2.1]]}}
| {{Latest stable software release/NetBeans}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[Java Virtual Machine|JVM]]}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|With XDebug<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/debugging.html|title = Debugging PHP Source Code in the NetBeans IDE}}</ref>}}
|-
! [[Notepad++]]
| {{yes|GPL}}
| 7.2.2
| {{no|No<ref>Will run in [[Wine (software)|Wine]], however</ref>}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|With XDebug<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thecancerus.com/debugging-php-using-xdebug-and-notepad-part-i/|title=Debugging PHP using Xdebug and Notepad++ : Part I|date=25 January 2009}}</ref>}}
|-
! [[SciTE]]
| {{yes|GPLv2}}
| 3.7.1
| {{yes|Yes<ref>But it is not free</ref>}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|[[FreeBSD]]<ref>[https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/editors/scite/ editors/scite] Port</ref>}}
| {{no}}
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| {{dunno}}
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![[Sublime Text]]
|[[Shareware]]
|4113
|Yes
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! [[TextMate]]
| {{yes|GPLv1}}
| 1.5
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
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| {{no}}
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| {{dunno}}
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! [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]]
| {{yes|Vim License}}
| 9.0<!-- Not bothering providing patch version numbers, e.g., 8.0.0132, because they come out almost daily!-->
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes|Yes<ref>Has been ported to virtually every Unix/Unix-like system and various others. Reference: [http://www.vim.org/download.php download : vim online].</ref>}}
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! [[Visual Studio Code]]
| {{yes|MIT}}
| {{Latest stable software release/Visual Studio Code}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes|Yes<ref>With the [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felixfbecker.php-intellisense PHP IntelliSense] extension.</ref>}}
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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 (text editor)|Atom]] – [[free and open-source software|free and open-source]]<ref name=lifehacker>{{cite news|url=http://lifehacker.com/atom-the-text-editor-from-github-goes-free-and-open-s-1573153208|title=Atom, the Text Editor from GitHub, Goes Free and Open-Source|date=5 October 2016|work=[[Lifehacker]] | first=Alan| last=Henry}}</ref> text editor with out-of-the-box PHP support.
* [[Bluefish_(software)|Bluefish]] – [[free and open-source software|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 [[Secure Shell|SSH]]/[[SSH File Transfer Protocol|SFTP]] support for uploading <ref name="PracticalPHP">{{cite book |last=Bacon |first=Jono |author-link=Jono Bacon |date=2007 |title=Practical PHP and MySQL : building eight dynamic web applications |url=https://archive.org/details/practicalphpmysq0000baco/mode/2up |publisher=Prentice Hall |isbn=9780132239974}}</ref>
* [[Brackets (text editor)|Brackets]] – [[free and open-source software|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 [[Apache Subversion|SVN]], [[Secure Shell|SSH]]/[[SSH File Transfer Protocol|SFTP]] access, [[Git (software)|Git]] database browsing and others.
* [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]] – [[PHP Development Tools|PHP Development Tools (PDT)]] and [[PHPEclipse]] projects. With additional plugins supports [[Apache Subversion|SVN]], [[Concurrent Versions System|CVS]], [[database model]]ling, [[Secure Shell|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 software|free]]/[[open source]] editor. Supports [[SSH file transfer protocol|SFTP]] and [[FTP]].
* [[ActiveState Komodo|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 [[SSH file transfer protocol|SFTP]] and [[FTP]]. Full support for [[Apache Subversion|SVN]] and [[Git (software)|Git]] since 7.2 and powerful plugin support for added functionality.
* [[SciTE]] – PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] API.
*[[Vim (text editor)|Vim]] – provides PHP syntax highlighting, debugging.<ref>[http://developers.blog.box.com/2007/06/20/how-to-debug-php-with-vim-and-xdebug-on-linux/ How to Debug PHP with Vim and XDebug on Linux]</ref>

===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 (computer science)|macro]] support, [[syntax highlighting]] (possible export to [[HTML]]), [[code completion]], php.net function reference, foldable code blocks etc.; expandable via plugins, e.g. ([[SSH Communications Security|S]])[[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] support, version control ([[Git (software)|Git]], [[Apache Subversion|SVN]]), [[Software documentation|documentation]] generators, [[Snippet (programming)|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|gPHPEdit]]
* [[Kate (text editor)|Kate]] – Supports any file access protocol that is supported by [[KIO]]. This includes [[HTTP]], [[FTP]], [[Secure Shell|SSH]], [[Server Message Block|SMB]] and [[WebDAV]].
* [[KDevelop]] – Supports everything as Kate above with addition of references of functions and syntax parser.
* [[Kwrite]]

==Proprietary editors==
* [[ActiveState Komodo|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 IDE|Cloud9]] – Online editor (supports multiple languages)<ref>{{cite web |url = https://c9.io/ |title = Cloud9 – Your development environment, in the cloud }}</ref>
* [[Coda (web development software)|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.
* [[PhpStorm|JetBrains PhpStorm]] – PHP IDE with editor, on-the-fly code analysis and other web development specific tools including FTP/SFTP synchronization; Trial available
* [[ActiveState Komodo|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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.sourcelair.com/stacks/php/|title=PHP support in SourceLair|website=SourceLair Help}}</ref> 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

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