It's not easy to get excited about the look of a PHP environment and editor but PHP Designer puts in more effort than most to create a stylish and highly usable one.

PHP Designer is a complete PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and PHP editor that caters for just about all your PHP coding needs but it also applies itself to HTML, CSS and JavaScript development. The main aim of PHP Designer is to boost your productivity and make your life easier. However, because of this, it's aimed more at beginners than professional editors, although there's enough there to keep the latter interested too.

Probably the main bonus of PHP Designer is the intelligent syntax highlighting which spots errors as you type, meaning less head scratching at the end of a long coding session. This applies not just to PHP but to other languages as well. Of course, PHP Designer also comes with a debugger which can test scripts for errors and suggests possible solutions although as with all debuggers, the success rate can be hit and miss according to most users.

If you're looking for a good looking PHP editor that supports plenty of other languages too, then PHP Designer may well make your life a lot easier.

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Writing PHP code and testing it on-the-fly can be a real hassle but this offering from DzSoft promises to ease the pain of coding by acting as a virtual server that can process code and display the results.

DzSoft PHP Editor is primarily a code editor, and includes the majority of features that you’d expect from this type of software. However, while most rival code editors tend to generalize, offering syntax highlighting for a multitude of languages PHP Editor is specifically tuned to the needs of web programmers who are working with the Hypertext Preprocessor language. Evidence of this can be found in the inclusion of common code and functions libraries and the ability to run and preview your work.

At first glance the program doesn’t appear to have a particularly intuitive interface. The design wouldn’t be out of place in Windows 95 and the main editor window is a typical reproduction of Notepad with each line numbered for easy reference. What appears to be a navigation bar on the left offers some hope of functionality, and once you get stuck in to coding it really delivers. The explorer bar tracks everything and records the location of each include, function, variable, and class you use. Should you wish to specifically save a reference point you can add up to nine bookmarks, although you can’t assign names to them - an addition that would have helped clarify what function each snippet serves.

To use the run and preview feature you must install PHP on your PC, a simple operation when compared to setting up your computer as a server that can process PHP. With a syntax check also included, this tool comes highly recommended to anyone that will be writing significant bodies of PHP. DzSoft PHP Editor may be a little rough around the edges, but with its outstanding functionality, that can be forgiven.

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Generating PHP from MySQL databases can sometimes be a troublesome and complicated process but PHPMaker is a powerful tool that does it with impressive speed and accuracy. Using PHPMaker, you can quickly create websites that allow users to view, edit, search, add and delete records on the Web.

PHPMaker comes with a multitude of options that enable you to generate PHP applications depending on the type of project you are working on. The generated codes are clean, straightforward and easy-to-customize. It's also pretty flexible because the PHP scripts that are generated can be run on both Windows or Linux/Unix servers.

They key to this program is the simplification of the PHP process. Even beginners can use it with patience. The latest major release of PHPMaker includes a whole realm of enhanced features most notably a Grid-Edit feature that enables you to edit multiple records simultaneously in the List page. it also offers Inline-Add and Inline-Copy as so you can modify records in real time on the List page itself. Other major features include an Enhanced View Page, Registration Page, CAPTCHA tool (to ensure it's a human user registering), Multiple Master/Detail, More Ajax plus Improved Security features.

Perhaps the only thing that can be said against PHPMaker is that it's slightly overwhelmed with features, especially in the new version. It will take a lot of time to get to grips with it to get the best out of it but once done, it can save you many hours in development time.

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Rapid PHP editor is a powerful, quick and sophisticated PHP editor that extends far beyond the essentials of regular PHP editing environments. Convenient features enable you to instantly create and edit not only PHP, but also HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code, while integrated tools allow you to easily debug, validate, reuse, navigate and format your code.

Whether you are a professional developer or pure enthusiast, with Rapid PHP editor you can get your job done faster, save time and increase productivity.

Rapid PHP Editor is the world's only PHP editor that includes full-scale HTML, CSS and JavaScript editors. Now you can accomplish more with a single tool.

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PHP Expert Editor is an easy-to-use PHP integrated development environment containing a raft of features for both beginners and professional programmers. PHP Expert Editor has an internal HTTP-server and Debugger to run, test and debug PHP scripts, or you can choose to use any external HTTP-server.

Features of PHP Expert Editor:

• PHP syntax check

• Internal browser

• Code explorer

• File explorer

• FTP client

• Project explorer

• Library Explorer

• Code templates

• Three modes of code highlighting (PHP & HTML, HTML only, PHP only)

• JavaScript and CSS files highlighting

• Quick navigation in code

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PHP Designer is a professional powerful PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for both beginners and professional developers that enhance the process of editing, debugging, analyzing and publishing applications and websites powered by PHP and other web-languages.

Designed to boost your productivity and simplify complex coding projects through intelligent set of editing tools that includes full support for PHP 5.2, syntax highlighters, intelligent nested code completion and code tip that are displayed as you type, so you do not need to look into documentation to see classes and function attributes, project manager, code snippets, the large built-in code-libraries, highlights (un)matching brackets and tags and numerous tools and wizards to speed of your development.

Jump to any declarations declared in both file and project files with filtering by classes, interfaces, functions, variables and constants.

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Top PHP Studio is an Integrated Development Environment for PHP. The application provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use solution for editing, testing and deploying PHP based web applications, giving you the power to create dynamic sites with ease.

Main features of Top PHP Studio:

• Execution of PHP scripts through the internal HTTP server

• Live preview of scripts in the internal browser

• Built-in FTP client for handling files on remote servers

• Code explorer

• Function and parameter completion for standard PHP functions

• Syntax checking for PHP code

• HTML tag completion

• Visual file comparison utility

• Configurable syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, SQL, CSS...

• Integration with PHP documentation

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NuSphere PhpED IDE is a professional integrated development environment intended for building web-applications using php scripting language. PhpED is a robust code editor, powerful php debugger, profiler and web site deployment tool all-in-one. It also includes integrated database and CVS clients, NuSOAP Wizard, HTML validator and PHP code Formatter tools, support for terminals, SSh, SFTP and much more. PhpED supports HTML, XML and CSS and other popular languages.

It also includes:

• Integrated database and CVS clients
• NuSOAP Wizard
• HTML validator and PHP code Formatter tools
• Support for terminals
• Ssh
• Sftp

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PHPEdit is the best PHP Editor/IDE under windows to work with PHP.

It offers a bunch of tools which allow you to work easier and faster on your everyday work. Here is a short overview of its features: Syntax Highlighting, Code Hint, Code Insight, Integrated PHP debugger, Help Generator, Customizable shortcuts, More than 150 scriptable commands, Keyboard templates, Todo report generator, QuickMarks, Plugins...

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Expert Debugger is a free easy-to-use tool for debugging PHP scripts. Expert Debugger uses the DBG PHP Debugger and allow to debug scripts via network or on local computer. You can run scripts in step-by-step mode and to trace values of any variables and script output. The debugger has a comfortable interface and can be integrated with IDE or editors.

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Rapid PHP editor is a powerful, quick and sophisticated PHP editor that extends far beyond the essentials of regular PHP editing environments. Convenient features enable you to instantly create and edit not only PHP, but also HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code, while integrated tools allow you to easily validate, reuse, navigate and format your code.

Whether you are a professional developer or pure enthusiast, with Rapid PHP editor you can get your job done faster, save time and increase productivity. Rapid PHP Editor is the world's only PHP editor that includes full-scale HTML, CSS and JavaScript editors. Now you can accomplish more with a single tool.

Key features:

• Speed - loads very quickly
• Sophisticated, fully customizable and familiar text editor
• Syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WML, XML and SQL
• UTF-8 Unicode Support
• Easily navigate your code with Code Explore
• Lookup PHP function parameters with Function Hints
• Validate PHP code with Syntax Check
• Integration with PHP, HTML and CSS documentation
• Save and open files directly from FTP
• Project management and FTP publishing
• SQL database connectivity (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Interbase)
• Matching bracket highlighting
• Search and Replace with Regular Expression Support
• Search and Replace in files
• Spell Checker for text in HTML code and TXT files
• Multi Item Clipboard
• Code snippet library
• Ready-to-use Code Templates
• Advanced HTML editing with Auto Complete, Inspector and other tools
• Advanced CSS editing with built-in CSS editor
• Advanced JavaScript editing with built-in JavaScript editor
• Countless goodies (code collapse, line highlighting, text indentation etc.)

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Proto Survey lets you add professional surveys and perform market investigation on your web site, without a knowledge of programming. Surveys are created in PHP and results are stored in MySQL databases. Analyze your data and filter results with Pronto Survey.

Pronto Survey is a very simple and powerful application. You create a survey using a very intuitive interface, adding survey pages and questions, rules that affect the workflow. Pronto Survey has been created with the web designer in mind: no programming knowledge is necessary. Only basic information about your server configuration, which can be obtained from your system administrator or web hosting provider, and you're ready to create the script to process your survey.

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Lemonade PHP Script Creator allows you to create fully-functional php scripts. With simple to use features such as email processing, MySql Database Handling: data recorders, data readers and much more, creating quality and time saving scripts has never been easier.

Features:

• Requires no php installation to create scripts
• Email data entered by forms
• Use a MySql Database
• Add and Delete records of a Database
• Create and Delete Database Tables
• User Friendly Interface
• Requires no PHP programming knowledge

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Zend Studio Professional is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for professional PHP developers. Through a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis and optimization tools, Zend Studio 5 Professional aims to speed development cycles and simplify complex projects.

Highlights of the package include:

Simplify web database application development

Speed up development time

Work smarter

Take control of your code

Powerful debugger

Work as a team

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