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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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Install RecordMyDesktop on Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 14, 15


RecordMyDesktop is a free and open source desktop screencasting software application written for GNU/Linux. The program is separated into two parts; a command line tool that performs the tasks of capturing and encoding, and an interface that exposes the program functionality graphically. There are two front-ends written in python with pyGtk (gtk-recordMyDesktop) and pyQT4 (qt-recordMyDesktop). RecordMyDesktop also offers the ability to record audio through ALSA, OSS or the JACK audio server. RecordMyDesktop only outputs to Ogg using Theora for video and Vorbis for audio.


Features


* Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute Wink, you need to get permission from the author.

* Cross-Platform: Available for all flavors of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).

* Audio: Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better.

* Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.

* Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.

* Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.

* Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input (great time saver and generates professional captures).

* Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web.

Open terminal paste the following commands to install recordmydesktop

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gtk-recordmydesktop

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop

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Command-line Torrent Client With Deluge-console On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint 14, 15


Deluge-console

 

Deluge is a full featured bit torrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in its backend and features multiple user-interfaces including; GTK,Web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that all the bittorrent activity. The deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.


Features 


*  Core/UI split allowing Deluge to run as a daemon
*  Connect remotely to the Deluge daemon
*  Web UI
*  Console UI
*  GTK+ UI
*  BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
*  Mainline DHT
*  Local Peer Discovery(aka LSD)
*  FAST protocol extension
*  uTorrent Peer Exchange
*  UPnP and NAT-PMP
*  Proxy support
*  Web seed
*  Private Torrents
*  Global and per-torrent speed limits
*  Configurable bandwidth scheduler
*  Password protection
*  RSS(via Plugin)

Open a terminal and paste the following command to install deluge-console

sudo apt-get install deluge-console && sudo apt-get install deluged

Setup Deluge Console 


Start the console interface

Enter the deluge console:

deluge-console

Connect to your daemon (your daemon port can be found on your slot info page):
connect 127.0.0.1:{{DELUGEDPORT}}

Commands


Help commands can be displayed for each command using the --help flag.

add

 

Add a torrent
Usage: add [-p <save-location>] <torrent-file> [<torrent-file> ...]
Options:
-p PATH, --path=PATH  save path for torrent

cache

 

Show information about the disk cache
Usage: cache

config

 

Show and set configuration values
Usage: config [key1 [key2 ...]]
config --set key value
Options:
-s SET, --set=SET  set value for key

connect

 

Connect to a new deluge server.
Usage: connect <host[:port]> <username> <password>

debug

 

Enable and disable debugging
Usage: debug [on|off]

del

 

Remove a torrent
Usage: rm <torrent-id>
Options:
--remove_data  remove the torrent's data

exit

 

Exit from the client.
Usage: exit

halt

 

Shutdown the deluge server.
Usage: halt

help

 

displays help on other commands
Usage: help [command]

info

 

Show information about the torrents
Usage: info [<torrent-id> [<torrent-id> ...]]
You can give the first few characters of a torrent-id to identify the torrent.
Options:
-v, --verbose - shows more information per torrent
-i, --id - use internal id instead of torrent name
--sort=SORT - sort items.  Possible keys: state, save_path, tracker,
tracker_status, next_announce, name, total_size,
progress, num_seeds, total_seeds, num_peers,
total_peers, eta, download_payload_rate,
upload_payload_rate, ratio, distributed_copies,
num_pieces, piece_length, total_done, files,
file_priorities, file_progress, peers, is_seed,
is_finished, active_time, seeding_time
--sort-reverse=SORT_REV - sort items in reverse order.  Same keys allowed as for --sort.

pause

 

Pause a torrent
Usage: pause [ * | <torrent-id> [<torrent-id> ...] ]

plugin

 

Manage plugins with this command
Usage: plugin [ -l | --list ]
plugin [ -s | --show ]
plugin [ -e | --enable ] <plugin_name>
plugin [ -d | --disable ] <plugin_name>
Options:
-l, --list - lists available plugins
-s, --show - shows enabled plugins
-e ENABLE, --enable=ENABLE - enables a plugin
-d DISABLE, --disable=DISABLE - disables a plugin

quit

 

Exit from the client.
Usage: quit

recheck

 

Forces a recheck of the torrent data
Usage: recheck [ * | <torrent-id> [<torrent-id> ...] ]

resume

 

Resume a torrent
Usage: resume [ * | <torrent-id> [<torrent-id> ...] ]

rm

 

Remove a torrent
Usage: rm <torrent-id>
Options:
--remove_data - remove the torrent's data

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[How To] Install OpenShot Video Editor In Ubuntu 13.10,13.04,12.10,12.04 and Linux Mint 15,14


OpenShot is a Linux based application, it is also a open source video editor. It is licensed with GPL, version 3.0 and built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework. By using application you can feed your favorites on the Operating System like; videos, photos, and music files etc. Some applications are too difficult to install and use in other operating systems but in OpenShot, you can easily import and use sub-titles, transitions, effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Video, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.



Features

 

*  Support for many videos, audio and image formats
*  Gnome integration
*  Unlimited tracks and layers
*  Chip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting
*  Video transitions with real time previews
*  Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
*  Title templates, title creation, sub-titles
*  3D Animated Titles
*  Solid color clips (including alpha compositing )
*  Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
*  Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
*  Video encoding (based on FFmpeg )
*  Key Frame animation
*  Digital zooming of video clips
*  Speed changes on clips (slow motion etc)
*  Audio mixing and editing
*  Presets for key frame animations and layout
*  Ken Burns effect (artistic panning over an image)
*  Digital video effects , including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen) , and over 20 other video effects

How to Install OpenShot on Ubuntu

 

Open the terminal then type the commands

sudo apt-get install openshot openshot-doc



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[How To] Install Sublime Text 2 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint 14, 15

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. Its a closed source editor. The first version of sublime was released in five years ago. It is very extensibility and cross platformability, this means you can use this on ubuntu on the desktop, OS X on the laptop, Windows at work and have the same theme, plugin, and keybinding across all platforms.

Features of sublime text 2


      * Autosave
      * Bookmark within files
      * Multi-panel editing
      * Ability to select multiple sections of code
      * It has a Minimap. It show the full source code
      * It has native support for 27 programming languages included,
         with additional available
      * It has a custom key for binding
      * Brace matching, autocomplete
      * Support for macros and python-based plugins
      * RegEx-based find and replace
      * Fully customizable syntax highlighting

Install Sublime text 2 on Ubuntu/Linux Mint


Open Terminal and follow the commands to install Sublime Text 2.  
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text

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[How To] Install uTorrent On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 And Linux Mint 14, 15

uTorrent is a lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client, currently there is only command-line version of Utorrent for Ubuntu. uTorrent work as a web server in Linux. You can access uTorrent from your browser after you started uTorrent using command in Terminal.


Install uTorrent Client on Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint 


Please run the below command to install the dependency library first.
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386
Now Open a Terminal(Alt + Ctrl + T) and paste the following command to download the uTorrent server.
wget http://download.utorrent.com/linux/utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz
Then use the following command to move the file to /opt
sudo mv utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz /opt/
Now move to the opt directory to extract the tar file.
cd /opt/
sudo tar -xvf utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz
Then remove the source file.
sudo rm -rf utorrent-server-3.0-25053.tar.gz
Change the permission of the extracted folder.
sudo chmod 777 -R utorrent-server-v3_0/
Create a symbolic link so that you can run the torrent server from terminal.
sudo ln -s /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/utserver /usr/bin/utserver

Our uTorrent Server is ready. Enter the following command to start the server.
utserver -settingspath /opt/utorrent-server-v3_0/ &

Access the uTorrent Server


Open a browser and type:
http://localhost:8080/gui/

Type the User Name as admin and leave the password field as empty and click Ok.


If you want to avoid every time starting uTorrent via command line, create a startup application and enter the command in command field as follows. 


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[How To] Install GIMP 2.8.6 In Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint 14, 15

GIMP, the GNU image manipulation program is an open source photo editor will works on both Linux and windows. GIMP has tools used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialised tasks. Animated images such as GIF and MPEG files can be created using an animation plugin.
The new version of GIMP 2.8.6 have many bug fixes and new features:

    * Saving to URIs is now possible
    * Fixed the brush spacing for drawing in any direction
    * It increased the brush patterns and clipboard in maximum to 1024*1024
    * The single-window docks can't shrink smaller than their requisition
    * The application no longer crashes when dealing with unavailable fonts
    * Close Gimp click the close button of the single-window
    * Default Colour from Gradient dymanics and tool preset have been added
    * Make sure data objects are saved when only theire name was changed
    * It allow the non-generated brushes to change there space
    * Ctrl+W for close the image windows and tabs, it not for docks
    * For round the neative value correctly, add SIGNED_ROUND()
    * GIMP_PLUGIN_DEBUG for work again after GLib changed logging
    * For transperent borders add or fix the zealous crop

Install GIMP 2.8.6 on Ubuntu 13.10 and Linux Mint 15


Open Terminal and enter the following commands.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

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[How To] Install Mozilla Firefox 22 In Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 and Linux Mint 14, 15

Now Mozilla Firefox 22 is a high performance web application. Which support web applications, 3D gaming, Video calls and file sharing. It does not need any other softwares or plugins to maintain applications. Now Mozilla has a  new feature, WebRTC(Web Real-Time Communication). Which allows developers to create web apps with built-in video and audio calls, as well as file sharing without the need for any plugins or third-party software. With these additions, Firefox is better equipped than ever to challenge Chrome for the web app and gaming performance crown.

Features of Mozilla Firefox 22

    * WebRTC
    * Display scaling options for high-resolution displays (Windows only as of now)
    * Mac OS X:Download progress in dock application icon
    * Changed the HTML5 audio/video playback rate
    * Social service manager implemented in Add-ons manager
    * asm.js optimizations enabled for major performance improvements
    * Asynchronous canvas updated
    * plain text files display with word-wrap
    * for user security, object is no longer accessible from web content
    * pointer lock API used outside of fullscreen
    * CSS3 firefox implemented and enabled by default
    * Added new web notifications
    * Added clipboardData API for javascript access to a user's clipboard
    * Built-in font inspector

Install Firefox 22 in Ubuntu and Linux Mint


Open Terminal(Alt + Ctrl + T) and paste the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install firefox