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phpDesigner 8 is a fast PHP IDE and PHP editor with built-in HTML5 -, CSS3 - and JavaScript editors boosted with features to help you create amazing websites.



Syntax highlighters

  • Intelligent syntax highlighting, switch automatic between PHP5, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
  • PHP5 (both version 4 and 5 are fully supported)
  • SQL (MySQL, MSSQL 2000, MSSQL 7, Ingres, Interbase 6, Oracle, Sybase)
  • HTML5
  • XHTML
  • CSS3 ( version 1 and 2.1 are also full supported)
  • JavaScript
  • VBScript
  • Java
  • C#
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Smarty


PHP

  • Support for PHP 4 and PHP 5+
  • Code explorer for PHP (support for includes, classes, extended classes, interfaces, properties, functions, constants and variables)
  • Code completion (code insight) for PHP with OOP support
  • Code tip for PHP (helps you completing your functions as you type)
  • Support for PHP object oriented programming (OOP) including nested objects
  • Go to any declarations (classes, functions, variables, interfaces etc.) declared in your files, projects or frameworks
  • Work with any of your favorites PHP frameworks
  • Code completion for phpDocumentor
  • Add automatic phpDocumentor documentation to your classes and functions
  • phpDocumentor wizard (generate a full documentation of your code in seconds)
  • Smart comment/uncomment of code
  • Enclose strings with single- or double quotes, linefeed, carriage return or tabs
  • Automatic close single- or double quotes, brackets etc.
  • Fast, powerful and very configurable PHP code beautifier with profile support


Debug PHP

  • Debug PHP scripts with Xdebug
  • Breakpoints
  • Step by step debugging
  • Step into
  • Step over
  • Run to cursor
  • Run until return
  • Call stack
  • Watches
  • Context variables
  • Evaluate
  • Profiling
  • Multiple sessions
  • Evaluation Tip
  • Catch errors
  • Run PHP scripts using the PHP interpreter from php.net
  • Catch output (both formatted and as text) and errors and warnings
  • Support for localhost preview
  • Preview with Internet explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari
  • Support for debugging from external browsers and stepping into the code in phpDesigner 7


Syntax Check

  • Real time syntax check for PHP, HTML/XHTML and CSS
  • Real time syntax check for PHP using the PHP interpreter from php.net


HTML

  • Support for HTML5
  • Code completion (code insight) for HTML/XHTML with embedded CSS and JavaScript code completion (code insight)
  • Tag code inspector for HTML/XHTML
  • Find and select matching tags
  • Show HTML/XHTML syntax errors in real-time
  • The code completion will automatic suggest the missing close tag
  • Support for HTML tidy (w3 standard, upgrade to css, upgrade to xhtml and upgrade to xml)
  • Link-, image-, table-, list-, forms-, meta-, flash-, font-, color dialogs
  • Format tools and tags
  • Special character dialog and converter
  • Remove tags
  • Import <body> tag from other documents
  • Selection between a variation of doctypes
  • Code Formatter for HTML


CSS

  • Support for CSS3
  • Code Explorer for CSS
  • CSS code completion (code insight)
  • Show CSS syntax errors in real-time
  • Selector wizards (simple, class, id, contextual, child, sibling and pseudo)
  • Go to any CSS class or id located in either your document, project or opened files
  • Code Formatter for CSS
  • Code Minifier for CSS


JavaScript

  • Code Explorer for JavaScript
  • Code completion (code insight) for JavaScript with OOP support
  • Code tip for JavaScript (helps you completing your functions as you type)
  • Support for the JavaScript framework jQuery (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
  • Support for the JavaScript framework YUI (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
  • Support for the JavaScript framework Dojo (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
  • Support for the JavaScript framework MooTools (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
  • Support for the JavaScript framework Prototype (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
  • Support for the JavaScript framework Ext JS (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
  • Go to any JavaScript function or variables declared in either your document, project or opened files
  • Code Formatter for Javascript
  • Code Minifier for JavaScript


Project and File Management

  • Files located in your project can be stored both local and remote
  • Go to any PHP declaration in project with filtering by classes, interfaces, functions, variables or constants
  • Access all your classes, extended classes, interfaces, properties, functions, constants and variables declared in your project or framework through the code tip and code completion
  • Work with multiple frameworks (both PHP and JavaScript)
  • Support for working with any PHP framework
  • Support for working with popular JavaScript frameworks (see JavaScript)
  • Support and integration for TortoiseSVN
  • File browser
  • Go to any CSS class or id located in your project
  • Go to any JavaScript function or variable located in your project
  • Localhost support
  • FTP/SFTP browser and management
  • Advanced Filter management


Advanced Editor

  • Advanced and fully customizable editor
  • Support for bookmarks
  • Unlimited undo and redo
  • Drag and drop support
  • Show special characters
  • Support for both tabs and space indention
  • Print (with preview)
  • Export to Latex, rtf and html
  • Encodings: ANSI, UTF-8 (with and without BOM), UTF 16 LE/BE (with and without BOM)
  • File Formats: Windows, Unix and Mac
  • Auto completions (code templates)
  • Auto corrections
  • Advanced search and replace including support for regular expression, wildcards, projects and files
  • Gutter, margin and line numbering
  • Highlight matching and un-matching brackets and tags
  • Bracket highlighting
  • Matching text highlighting


Help and References

  • Integration with the PHP manual in phpDesigner 8 (both the standard and extended edition of the PHP manual)
  • HTML manual
  • CSS manual
  • Pear manual
  • JavaScript manual
  • SQL manual


Tools

  • Code snippet support with customizable categories
  • Code template support with customizable categories
  • Code libraries for PHP, phpDocumentor, Smarty, SQL (MySQL, MSSQL 2000, MSSQL 7, Ingres, Interbase 6, Oracle, Sybase), HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, Java, C#, Perl, Python and Ruby
  • Timestamp (with auto update)
  • Differencing and merging tool
  • Convert case (lowercase, uppercase, capitalize)
  • Application manager
  • Todo and bug manager
  • Inline todo and bug manager (based on todo and bug comments in the code)
  • Web search (contextual search on the big engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Koders, php.net etc.)
  • Database browser (using phpMyAdmin)
  • Preview with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari


User Interface

  • Support for more than 15 different themes
  • Multilanguage support (current more than 20 languages are supported)
  • Fully customizable workspace
  • Drag-, group and floatable toolbars and panels
  • Customizable shortcuts
  • Tabbed and document interface


Services

  • Free updates for all versions 8.x.x
  • Free technical support by email (commercial licenses has a higher priority responds)



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