You can find a list of PHP
editors at http://www.php-editors.com. Here are a few of the most popular:
??? Zend Studio (http://www.zend.com/products/zend_studio) is the most powerful integrated
development environment (IDE) available for developing PHP web applications.
??? phpEclipse (http://www.phpeclipse.net) is an increasingly popular environment for
developing PHP web applications. Zend is also a member of the Eclipse foundation.
??? Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) is, as defined on its web site, an ???extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.??? Emacs is a very powerful,
free, and cross-platform editor.
??? SciTe (http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDownload.html) is a free and crossplatform
editor.
??? PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/) is a freeware editor popular among Windows developers.
The editor knows how to highlight the syntax for many existing file formats. Additional
plug-ins can add integrated CSS editing functionality and spell checking.
??? PHP Designer 2006 (http://www.mpsoftware.dk) is aWindows editor that contains an
integrated debugger.
Installing XAMPP
XAMPP is a package created by Apache Friends (http://www.apachefriends.org), which includes
Apache, PHP, MySQL, and many other goodies. If you don??™t have these already installed on your
machine, the easiest way to have them running is to install XAMPP.
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