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Get A Free Popular IDE For PHP

Written by IT News on 5:21 PM

By: Catalin Bocanu, Web News Editor

Even if you are a beginner or advanced PHP developer, the use of adequate tools to create PHP programs, of course, increases speed. In coding for PHP programming language can be done with a text editor like Notepad or editor of feature syntax illumination.

But in the case of complex applications, only a simple editor is not enough to ensure regular maintenance work. In this case, you must choose one IDE (Integrated Development Environment), with a minimal number of useful functions to manage certain type of project.

DEV-PHP is a free integrated development environment for PHP language scripts that run on Windows operating system. With this tool, you can manage any PHP script works on a web server or directly to the operating system as a portable application based on PHP-GTK extension.

To use all the DEV-PHP functions, you must determine the parameters required in the General window, such as synthax properties, PHP parser and PHP.ini path, the web server parameters, and so forth. There are also predefined scripts and fragments that could serve as a model or as a template for coding tasks. DEV-PHP also lets you create HTML or JavaScript code with synthax illumination.

For example, selecting BOTS menu bar and in the choice of MySQL, for example, you can quickly have a script to display HTML table in the MySQL database table after you change the parameters of the database connection.

For any embedded PHP, documentation, which also contain a number of examples to help you configure and optimize certain lines of code. Besides Dev-PHP IDE application, in order to have a full development environment, you will need a web server capable of supporting PHP scripts, the latest PHP distribution and optimization of code PHP.