PHP Coder

What is PHP Coder?
PHP Coder is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) especially developed for PHP programmers.
Through tight integration of the PHP interpreter and the PHP documentation, PHP Coder gives you a time-saving Development Interface. Features are Full Integration of the PHP Interpreter and the PHP documentation, Integrated Preview window, Full Syntax Highlighting for HTML and PHP, AutoComplete for frequently used text constructs, Project manager, Tag Buttons and all the standard editing functions like almost unlimited undo, copy and paste, searching, ...
And it is quite small compared to other language's IDEs and loads pretty fast.
And the best, it's FREE.

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Features
This is the PHP Coder features list. You can get an overview of PHP Coder's possibilities.
You should also take a look at the screen shots to get an impression of PHP Coder and see how the described features aid you while programming.

PHP Coding helps

Class Browser: Displays a structured tree view of your scripts, shows your classes, functions and variables
Script Insight: Lists all class members of a class-variable (works with inherited classes and includes as well), and displays function parameters in a pop-up window
Integrated Preview: Lets you view your pages parsed (either a by php.exe or a web server) in the integrated preview window
Syntax Highlighting: The customizable highlighter shows your source with different color styles for certain PHP language constructs. And both PHP and HMTL can be highlighted at the same time!
Documentation Viewer: Have your PHP, HTML and database documentation always at hand. The documentation files are parsed in real time and displayed in a tree view, you can even search the documentation or look up the current word
AutoComplete: Lets PHP developers define their own tokens that will expand to any text, saves you a lot of typing
PHP Keyword Completion: You don't like typing long functions like mysql_affected_rows or mysql_connect, simply type the first few letters and hit ctrl+space, you'll be able to select the right token from a list
Brace Matching: Move the cursor over a brace and hit ctrl+m and PHP Coder will find the matching brace and select all the text in between

Productivity

Enhanced Project Manager: An enhanced project manager lets you manage and organize your site and PHP projects, allows for sub-folders, virtual and physical folders can be added.
Integrated File manager with FTP Client: The integrated File manager lets you open local and FTP files.
Multiple Document Interface: PHP Coder allows you to edit multiple documents at the same time using a tabbed editing window
Tag Buttons: Toolbars for frequently used HTML constructs
Server Integration: Allows you to to parse your PHP documents using your web server, local or remote. Lets you see your pages as your visitors will!

Editing

Access local and remote files
Set Bookmarks on any line (with ctr+shift+0..9 and access them via ctrl+0..9) for quick access
Find class and function definitions in no time using the class browser
Customizable Syntax Highlighting
Customizable Tag Highlighting
Ultra-fast editing facilities - line no# support, gutter, margin
Insert/Overwrite modes

Extended Search and Replace Support

Extended Search and Replace Dialogs
Search using Regular Expressions
Search in files (all open files, all project files, in directories)

Speed

Open any files on your hard disk using the internal File Explorer, supports FTP servers as well
Access to recently used files and projects
AutoComplete can expand frequently used text constructs (like class, or function definitions or mySQL queries) and saves you a lot of typing
PHP Keyword Completion will complete frequently used PHP functions and keywords
Keyboard shortcuts exist for all frequently used features

Flexibility

Undockable Windows and Toolbars, design your own workspace, however you like it
Define your own highlighting schemes, chose your own colors for all syntax highlighted tokens

Printing

Syntax-Highlighter Color Printout
In-Depth Printout Customization (Margins, Header, Footer, Font, Line Numbers, ...)
Print Preview
Printer Setup

Requirements

Win32 (Win NT 3.51, 4.0, Win 2000, Win 9x)
< I might port it to Linux soon, once Borland releases Kylix >
Internet Explorer 3 or higher for internal preview (works with standard system browser too if IE not available)

available from Microsoft.com
PHP Interpreter and Documentation for advanced features

available from PHP.net:

Get the PHP Win32 package containing the PHP cgi binary from php.net Downloads

Get the PHP Documentation (not the one big file, but the sliced up version) from php.net

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