Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Five Useful PHP Development Tools




  

EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor, PHP editor, Java editor and Hex Viewer for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers. It has Syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, Java, C/C++, CSS, ASP, Perl, JavaScript, VBScript, Python and Ruby on Rails. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files. It supports seamless Web browser for previewing HTML pages, and FTP commands for uploading local files to FTP server.


PHPScriptGen is a powerful online tool that can automatically generates fully functional codes for your PHP/MySQL applications. You can create completed CRUD (Create, Retrieve Update and Delete) scripts within ten minutes. Thus it can save you a lot of time wasted on repetitive coding. The generated codes can be easily understood and further customized. It is designed for both beginners and veteran programmers. This amazing tool is completely FREE for both commercial and non-commercial use.


Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.




Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development application developed by Adobe Systems. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems. It is still a good choice for visual web developer, aothough its PHP support is not very good.

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