Top Free PHP IDE


1. GoInCloud :  An powerful online IDE for developing PHP projects with online php debugger

2. ActiveState Komodo: Live PHP syntax checking, (s)ftp support, functions list and code hints

3. Aptana Studio: Eclipse Based IDE, able to use PDT plugins, visual JS Editor. Open-Source, Free project. (Community edition merged in).

4. Bluefish: A multipurpose editor with PHP syntax support, in-line PHP documentation, etc. With GVFS, supports SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, and SMB

5. Eclipse: PHPEclipse and PHP Development Tools projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, Database modelling, SSH/FTP access, Database Navigation, Trac integration, and others.

6. Emacs: Advanced text editor. The nXhtml addon has special support for PHP (and other template languages)

7. Geany: Syntax highlighting for HTML + PHP. Provides PHP function list

8. jEdit: Versatile Free/Open source editor. Supports SFTP and FTP

Netbeans IDE : A dedicated PHP coding environment and complete integration with web standards. Supports SFTP and FTP. SVN support can be added using plugins.

Vim:provides PHP syntax highlighting

 SciTE : fast, PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via Lua API:LUA

ConTEXT — Freeware editor with syntax highlighting.

Crimson Editor — Lightweight editor. Supports FTP.

Dev-PHP IDE — Lightweight IDE. Supports FTP & SFTP, CVS & SVN, Multiple languages with highlighters, Xdebug, etc.

Gizmo Editor – Freeware editor with syntax highlighting for php, html, css, java, and much more.

HTML-Kit — Syntax highlighting, Supports FTP.
Microsoft WebMatrix – A combined editor, server and publishing environment, syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, Razor, c# and JavaScript and publishing through WebDeploy and FTP.

Intype — Lightweight editor. Alpha version.

Notepad2 — Simple editor with syntax highlighting

EditPad Lite - A freeware and simple editor with auto text indent.

Notepad++ — Supports FTP & SFTP via plugin; syntax highlighting, and one of the most used editors in Windows[citation needed]

NoteTab — Broad editor, allows you to have multiple tabs open for different files, has FTP support, comes in two trial versions (NoteTab Standard, NoteTab Pro) and one free version NoteTab Light. NoteTab Pro highlights tags.

PHPEdit — Free for student use, shareware, counts down from 30 days after install.
Programmer’s Notepad

PSPad — Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.

RadPHP (formerly Delphi for PHP) — This is a commercial product, free for a 30 day trial

PHP Expert Editor

HapEdit – A free PHP Editor with intellisense support Rapid PHP.

Codelobster – All code highlights depending on a type, the also mixed code is thus supported, so the area of HTML will be highlighted as HTML, PHP as PHP, and Javascript as Javascript in a the same file. support: Joomla,  Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, Yii development and other PHP frameworks.