Which PHP IDE do you use?

[Ian]

I'm starting to do more coding work, and I'm a bit out of the loop when it comes to IDEs to use. I'm currently using NetBeans for all my PHP work, and I've got no complaints with it - but is there anything better out there?

PHPStorm looks pretty good, but I don't code enough to make it worthwhile paying that sort of recurring license fee.

I do have Visual Studio, but it looks like PHP compatibility is pretty ropey, unless using 3rd party plugins.

Any other PHP developers out there that could suggest some IDEs to try?

 

[Urmas]

Any other PHP developers out there...

Sure... but I am not one of them!

That said... have you tried Eclipse?

http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
https://eclipse.org/

Same price as NetBeans...

 

[Ian]

I've not tried that one yet, but it looks nice (and quite similar). As it's free, I may as well download it and give it a go .

 

[CryZ]

I'm not a web developer, but I can give you some editor suggestions:
IDEs supports php script:
Visual Studio (Almost any version. www.visualstudio.com The community edition of visual studio is free.)
Eclipse (url as Urmas says.)
Text / Code Editors:
Notepad++ (Highly recommend this. Lots of plug-ins can be installed with. https://notepad-plus-plus.org)
Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/ freeware support many platforms)
UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com Powerful but expensive.)
Sublime Text (https://www.sublimetext.com A beautiful editor.)
Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html Small, less functionality, but most light-weight )

I used those editors I mentioned above before, they're much reliable. And the following link contains lots of editors, I have no chance to use them one by one. But may be it could give you more choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

Here's a site you could make it as PHP references or language guide:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/

 

[Ian]

Thanks for those suggestions .

I've been using Notepad++ quite a bit recently, and really like that. I'll check out that plugin site, as it would be handy to expand it to cope with coding better.