# List of PHP editors

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

## Free editors

| Editor | License | Latest Version | Platform | Platform | Platform | Platform | Autocompletion | File Browser | File Browser | File Browser | File Browser | GUI builder | Internal Browser | Version Control | PHP Debugger |
| Editor | License | Latest Version | Linux | macOS | Windows | Other | Autocompletion | Local | FTP | SFTP | SSH | GUI builder | Internal Browser | Version Control | PHP Debugger |
| Aptana Studio | APL/ GPLv1 | 3.6.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | Yes | | | | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | With XDebug |
| Atom | MIT | 1.13.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD | Yes | | | | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| Bluefish | GPLv3 | 2.2.15 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Brackets | MIT | 1.8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | | | | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| CodeLite | GPLv2 | 18.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD | Yes | | | | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| Eclipse PDT | EPL | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | Yes | | | | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | With XDebug |
| Geany | GPLv2 | 1.29 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD | Yes | | | | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
| gedit | GPLv3 | 3.22.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD | Yes | | | | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | With XDebug |
| GNU Emacs | GPLv3 | 27.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSDs, OpenSolaris | Yes | dired (builtin) | tramp (builitin) | tramp (builtin) | tramp (builitin) | Yes | Yes | vc (builtin) | ? |
| jEdit | GPLv2 | 5.5.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Kate | GPLv2 | 16.08.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? |
| KWrite | GPLv2 | 16.08.1 | Yes | Yes | No | FreeBSD | No | | | | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| KDevelop | GPLv2 | 5.0.3 | Yes | Partial | Yes | FreeBSD | Yes | | | | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Komodo Edit | MPL | 10.1.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | | | | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| NetBeans | CDDL/ GPLv2/ LGPLv2.1 | 24 (10 December 2024) | Yes | Yes | Yes | JVM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With XDebug |
| Notepad++ | GPL | 7.2.2 | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | With XDebug |
| SciTE | GPLv2 | 3.7.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD | No | | | | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| Sublime Text | Shareware | 4113 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | | | | | | | |
| TextMate | GPLv1 | 1.5 | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | | | | ? | No | Yes | ? |
| Vim | Vim License | 9.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Visual Studio Code | MIT | This template is not used anymore. The latest stable and pre-release versions are maintained in Wikidata and they appear automatically in the main article for Visual Studio Code. | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | | | | ? | No | Yes | ? |

### 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
* Top PHP Studio – Supports FTP
* 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