14 DAY TRIAL // Even if you are a beginner or an advanced PHP developer, the usage of adequate tools when you create PHP programs will definitely improve the workflow. The coding in PHP programming language could be performed with the help of a text editor like Notepad or an editor having the feature of synthax highlighting.
But in case of the complex application development, only a simple editor will not be enough to ensure the maintenance of a regular workflow. In this case, it is necessary to select an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with the minimal number of features appropriate to manage a certain type of project.
DEV-PHP is a free integrated development environment for PHP scripting language that runs on Windows operating system. By using this tool, you will be able to manage any type of PHP script running on a web server or directly on the operating system as portable application based on PHP-GTK extension.
In order to use all DEV-PHP features, you will have to define the required parameters in the General Options window, such as synthax properties, PHP parser and PHP.ini path, web server parameters and so on. There are also predefined snippets and scripts that could serve as example or as template for your coding tasks. DEV-PHP also allows you to create JavaScript or HTML code with synthax highlighting.
For example, by selecting BOTS menu from the side bar and choosing the MySQL example, you can rapidly have a script to display in a HTML table the data contained in a MySQL database table, after you edit the database connection parameters.
For any PHP built-in function, the documentation also containing various examples will help you to customize or optimize certain lines of code. Besides Dev-PHP IDE application, in order to have a complete development environment, you will need a web server capable of support for PHP scripts, the latest PHP distribution and a PHP code optimizer.