USING an INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDEs)

In one of our previous post, we discuss on program editor of which we suggest some of these editor you can use to write your program with less stress. On the post we going to discuss on integrated development environment (IDEs) for written PHP programs.

In as much that programing editor could be, it cannot be compare with IDEs, because IDEs offer more advance features, such as debugging, testing program, as well as function description and many more of it…

Below is the  picture of one of the IDEs called PhpDesigner showing how program look like when using IDEs to write your programs.

PHPDESIGNER IDEs

The important of written a program with IDEs, is that you can set a breakpoint and then run all your codes when the running program get to a point you set a breakpoint, it will stop and give  out a useful information about the current status of the program.

For you to learn programing and run then without web browser, then you need to download and install one of the IDEs on your development computer system. With IDEs you can run your code rightly inside your integrated development environment.

There are many IDEs develop by various company, some of them are free while some are paid version.

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We are going to give you the list of these IDEs with the links to their website so that you make your choice of which one to download on your computer system.

Below are the list and their links

IDEs	Download link	Cost	Win	Mac	Lin
Eclipse PDT	http://eclipse.org/pdt/downloads/	Free	yes	yes	yes
Komodo IDE	http://activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide	$245	yes	yes	yes
NetBeans	http://www.netbeans.org	Free	yes	yes	yes
phpDesigner	http://mpsoftware.dk	$39	yes	no	no
PHPEclipse	http://phpeclipse.de	Free	yes	yes	yes
PhpED	http://nusphere.com	$119	yes	yes	no
PHPEdit	http://www.phpedit.com	$119	yes	no	no

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