PHPEdit is a commercial IDE

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

 developed by the French

France

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 company WaterProof SARL. It is written in Delphi and runs on the Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

, and is designed mainly for the PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

 language, but supports many other languages such as CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...

, HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

, JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

, INI, PHPEditScript, PlainText, SQL

SQL

SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

, XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

, and XSLT

XSLT

XSLT is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format,...

. PHPEdit currently costs € 89.00; A free license is still available, but only for non commercial use (personal homepage or own studies).

Features

• Syntax
  Syntax
  In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....
  
   highlighting for multiple languages in one document. Supported languages are CSS, HTML
  HTML
  HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
  
  , JavaScript
  JavaScript
  JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
  
  , INI, PHPEditScript, PHP
  PHP
  PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
  
  , PlainText, SQL
  SQL
  SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
  
  , XML
  XML
  Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
  
  , and XSLT
  XSLT
  XSLT is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format,...
  
  
• Code Hint for HTML
  HTML
  HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
  
  , SQL
  SQL
  SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
  
   and PHP
  PHP
  PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
  
  
• Code Insight for HTML
  HTML
  HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
  
  , SQL
  SQL
  SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
  
   and PHP
  PHP
  PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
  
  
• Code beautifier
• Integrated PHP debugger
  Debugger
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• Automatic syntax checking
• Help generator
• Task Reporter
• Customizable shortcut
  Keyboard shortcut
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  s
• More than 150 scriptable commands
• Keyboard templates
• To-do report generator
• QuickMarks
• File Explorer
• FTP Explorer
• EZ Publish integration
• CVS and SVN integration
• Solution Explorer
• Database Explorer
• Code browser
• Visual Query Builder
• Project Manager
• Plugins
• Integrated help manuals
• PHPUnit integration

History

PHPEdit development started as personal project of Sébastien Hordeaux in 1999. Distributed freely over the Internet, the project's community grew to more than 200,000 users. During this period of growth, Sébastien met John Knipper, Bertrand Dunogier and Daniel Lucazeau. In April 2004 they helped him create WaterProof SARL.

In July 2004, the first commercial version of the IDE was sold and since, hundreds of companies have adopted PHPEdit as their main development environment for PHP.

In November 2004, Bastien Hofmann joined the company to speed up PHPEdit development.

In April 2005, Jean Roussel joined the company to reinforce the PHP development department and develop a new solution called wIT, a PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

-based issue tracker.

Version history

Major version	Minor version	Release date	Changes
Beta versions	0.1-0.7	1999-2001	First freeware beta versions
	0.8	September 2003	Last freeware version
Version 1	1.0	June 2004	First commercial release
	1.2	April 2005	Automatic syntax checking; phpDocumentor PhpDocumentor phpDocumentor is an open source documentation generator written in PHP. It automatically parses PHP source code and produces readable API and source code documentation in a variety of formats. phpDocumentor generates documentation based on PHPDoc-formatted comments and the structure of the source...  support; eZ publish EZ publish -External links:* * * * * *...  support.
Version 2	2.0	January 2006	Project management.
	2.2	15 April 2006	CVS Concurrent Versions System The Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...  and Subversion support.
	2.4	7 June 2006	FTP and SFTP SSH file transfer protocol In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream...  support.
	2.6	19 August 2006	Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...  files editing.
	2.8	December 2006	MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...  explorer and visual query designer.
	2.10	April 2007	Xdebug Xdebug Xdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. It uses the DBGp debugging protocol.The debug information that Xdebug can provide includes the following:* stack and function traces in error messages with:...  support for debugging PHP.
	2.12	June 2007	Unit tests using PHPUnit PHPUnit PHPUnit is a unit testing software framework for the programming language PHP . Created by Sebastian Bergmann, PHPUnit is one of the xUnit family of frameworks that originated with Kent Beck's SUnit. PHPUnit is hosted at GitHub .- Purpose :... .
Version 3	3.0	18 September 2008	Complete rewrite. Code folding; smart indenting; improved unicode support.
	3.2	20 March 2009	Symfony Symfony Symfony is a web application framework written in PHP which follows the model-view-controller paradigm. Released under the MIT license, Symfony is free software... framework support as a plugin.
	3.4	8 June 2009	Support for PHP native classes; improved project management.
	3.6	26 February 2010	Automatic updates; PHP 5.3 support.
Version 4	4.0	18 February 2011	Contextual interface; extensibility by PHP scripting; breadcrumb navigator.
	4.0.1	28 February 2011	Maintenance release.
	4.0.2	18 March 2011	Maintenance release.
	4.0.3	7 April 2011	Maintenance release.
	4.0.4	29 April 2011	Maintenance release.
	4.0.5	6 June 2011	Maintenance release.
	4.0.6	2 August 2011	Maintenance release.
	4.1 beta	2 August 2011	CSS support.

External links

• Waterproof website
• PHP Editor Review at php editors