This article contains a list of text editors with features specific to the PHP scripting language. Free editors Cross-platform Aptana Studio – Eclipse-based IDE, able to use PDT plugins, visual JS editor. Open-source, free project. (Community edition merged in). Atom – free and open-source text editor with out-of-the-box PHP support. Bluefish – a multipurpose editor with PHP syntax support, in-line PHP documentation, etc. With GVfs, supports SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, and SMB. Brackets – free and open-source editor in HTML5/NodeJS by Adobe Team the best for integration frontend CodeLite – an open source, cross platform IDE for C/C++ and PHP. The built-in plugins supports SVN, SSH/SFTP access, Git database browsing and others. Eclipse – PHP Development Tools (PDT) and PHPEclipse projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, database modelling, SSH/FTP access, database navigation, Trac integration, and others. Editra – open source editor. Syntax highlighting and (partial) code completion for PHP + HTML and other IDE-like features like code browser etc. Emacs – advanced text editor. The nXhtml addon has special support for PHP (and other template languages). The major mode web-mode.el is designed for editing mixed HTML templates. Geany – syntax highlighting for HTML + PHP. Provides PHP function list. jEdit – free/open source editor. Supports SFTP and FTP. Komodo Edit – general purpose scripting language editor with support for PHP. Free version of the commercial ActiveState Komodo IDE. Netbeans – IDE with PHP support and integration with web standards. Supports SFTP and FTP. Full support for SVN and Git since 7.2 and powerful plugin support for added functionality. SciTE – PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via Lua API. Vim – provides PHP syntax highlighting, debugging. Windows ConTEXT – *No longer under development* Freeware editor with syntax highlighting. Crimson Editor – Lightweight editor. Supports FTP. Microsoft WebMatrix – A combined editor, server and publishing environment, syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, Razor, node.js, C# and JavaScript and publishing through WebDeploy and FTP. Supports multiple file encodings as of version 2. Notepad2 – Simple editor with syntax highlighting Notepad++ – FLOSS multi-language editor with macro support, syntax highlighting (possible export to HTML), code completion, php.net function reference, foldable code blocks etc.; expandable via plugins, e.g. (S)FTP support, version control (Git, SVN), documentation generators, snippet support, spell checking, custom classes completion, code beautifiers PSPad – Supports FTP; syntax highlighting. RJ TextEd – Text editor with many great features macOS Coda (web development