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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

PHP Designer 2008

Some years ago I got an email from an interesting young man named Michael Pham and we discussed PHP IDEs.

I am NOT one of those guys who insist on using a featureless editor to write code (and prove how geeky I am.) I love good IDEs.

For my PHP work I routinely use all the "biggies".

PHPEd by NuSphere (Which is AWESOME if you are a Windows User - $229 Pro, $119 Std, Retail)
Active State Komodo (Great, Multi Platform, not PHP Specific - $295 Retail)
Zend Studio (Strong, but moving to an Eclipse based Version - $299 Retail)

Michael remembered wishing for a commercial quality PHP IDE that was frugally priced when he ws a student - so he wrote one !

He just released the 2008 version and, as with all his new releases, it's packed with new features.

The personal version (last version) is FREE !

The Pro Version is €39

10 Users is €249

Unlimited Site Licence is €499

And the Academic licence for the full version is €29

I hope you'll check it out. Michael originally gave me a free evaluation copy and I liked it so much I paid him for it!

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:36:54 PM (Atlantic Standard Time, UTC-04:00)

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Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:09:41 AM (Atlantic Standard Time, UTC-04:00)

PHP Designer 2008 is sick. I normally use dreamweaver, and never liked the zend studio(or just never took the time to learn it). PHP Designer is my pick from now on. gona check out PHPED tho

Anonymous Coward

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:13:42 PM (Atlantic Standard Time, UTC-04:00)

you know i prefer dreamweaver than zend studio to code PHP.

Jouledoc

Friday, March 14, 2008 6:24:52 AM (Atlantic Standard Time, UTC-04:00)

I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned PDT on the Eclipse IDE platform, I know it's a Java implementation, but it's the slickest PHP IDE I've used. And I've used PHP Designer(2006), Zend Studio, Crimson Editor, and fiddled with a few others. Best of all it's free and hopefully with remain that way...

Bretton

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