Best PHP Editors For Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 And Linux Mint 14, 15


Here is the list of PHP editors that we can install it on Ubuntu.

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 gPHPedit

 

gPHPedit is a small UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, built using Scintilla. It was originally written by Andy Jeffries, and is currently being maintained by Anoop John. It is similar to gedit with the difference that it is designed for PHP and HTML text editing. It is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL),

* Syntax highlight PHP, CSS, HTML.
* Auto complete function names, parameters and variables.
* Syntax checking (lint).
* Integrated help inside the editor.

Install gphpedit by executing following command.

sudo apt-get -y install gphpedit

Geany 


Geany is a lightweight cross-platform GTK+ text editor based on Scintilla and including basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features. It is designed to have short load times, with limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries. It is available for a wide range of operating systems, such as BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows. Among the supported programming languages and markup languages are C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, LaTeX, CSS, Python, Perl, Ruby, Pascal, Haskell, Erlang, Vala and many others.
In contrast to traditional Unix-based editors like Emacs or Vim, Geany more closely resembles programming editors available for Microsoft Windows such as Programmer's Notepad or Notepad++, both of which also use Scintilla.

Install Geany

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geany-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install geany geany-plugins

Bluefish


Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.

Install Bluefish

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bluefish

screem

 

SCREEM (Site CReating and Editing EnvironMent) is not an HTML editor. Well, it is an editor now, but the plan although somewhat vague at the moment, is to make it much more than an HTML editor. The authors are aiming to make it and entire web production environment.Some of the highlights of screem.

* Link validation.
* Auto completion, high level tree view of functions and variables.
* DTD checking and suggesting html that is compatible with current DTD.
* Plugin support or helper applicaitons. eg: HTMLTidy to clean up code.
* Automatically close tags.
* Preview page.
* Page template support.
* Auto sync with remote site.
* Spell checker.
* Task management to track status of your project using TODO comments.
* Wizards to simplify code generation.
* PHP function reference.

Install screem 

sudo apt-get -y install screem

Quanta plus

 

 Quanta Plus, originally called Quanta, is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages. It is part of KDE, a Linux desktop environment, released in the Kdewebdev package. Quanta was licensed under GPL before the release of version 2.0 final.

* Syntax coloring.
* Auto complete.
* Integrated source-control support system.
* Remote site sync.

Install quanta

sudo apt-get -y install quanta

kate , gedit

 

Kate is a powerful text editor that can open multiple files simultaneously.
With a built-in terminal, syntax highlighting, and tabbed sidebar, it performs as a lightweight but capable development environment. Kate's many tools, plugins, and scripts make it highly customizable.
 

Kate's features include:


* Multiple saved sessions, each with numerous files
* Scriptable syntax highlighting, indentation, and code-folding
* Configurable templates and text snippets
* Symbol viewers for C, C++, and Python
* XML completion and validation This package is part of the KDE 4 Base applications module.

Install kate

sudo apt-get install kate

Install gedit

sudo apt-get install gedit

gvim / vim

 


Vim is a text editor written by Bram Moolenaar and first released publicly in 1991. Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems, Vim is designed for use both from a command line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface. Vim is free and open source software and is released under a license that includes some charityware clauses, encouraging users who enjoy the software to consider donating to children in Uganda.[3] The license is compatible with the GNU General Public License.

* Has support for plugins and has many plugins available to support php.
* Integrated debugging via a plugin.
* Or any other thing you are dreaming of.

Install vim

sudo apt-get -y install vim


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