phpDesigner 2008 is today's PHP IDE and PHP editor - the complete integrated development environment for PHP for both beginners and professional developers that help you boost the process of editing, analyzing, debugging and publishing applications and websites powered by PHP and other web languages!
Features
Explore the world of PHP
Explore the world of PHP and shorten the learning curve with detailed information about more than 3000 native PHP functions on the fly!
Boost your productivity
Designed to boost your productivity and simplify complex coding projects through intelligent set of editing tools that includes full support for PHP4/PHP5, syntax highlighters, highlighting of matching tags/braces and numerous tools and wizards to speed of your development!
Intelligent syntax highlighting
The intelligent syntax highlighter in phpDesigner 2008 makes it the ideal development environment for AJAX developers. Automatic switch between syntax highlighters for PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript dependant on your position in the file and dim the rest of the code!
PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more
phpDesigner 2008 has the WAMP and LAMP developer in mind. The strength in PHP lies in the ability to embed it into- and together with other web-languages and technologies. Therefore, does phpDesigner 2008 not only support PHP but also other web-languages as HTML, XHTML, MySQL, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, Java, C#, Perl, Python and Ruby!
Object-oriented programming (OOP)
In phpDesigner 2008 you can work with object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP5, nested code completion and have code tip displayed as you type so you do not need to look into documentation to see classes and function attributes!
Projects and PHP frameworks
In phpDesigner 2008 you can work with projects and integrate any PHP framework into your project and access all your files, classes, functions, interfaces, variables and constants declared in your project on the fly!
Real debugging using Xdebug
Debugging has never been easier with the new integration of Xdebug in phpDesigner 2008.
Analyze your code step by step using breakpoints, watches, evaluations etc. Find bottlenecks in your code or see which parts of your code are slow and could use a speed boost with the profiler support!
Enjoyable to use for hours and hours
The philosophy behind phpDesigner 2008 is to make it, enjoyable to use for hours and hours for both beginners and professional developers through an easy-to-use-, intuitive-, customizable- and tabbed interface!
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