Best and Popular IDEs for PHP Developers.

Here are the best and popular IDEs for PHP developers.
 

Dreamweaver MX (www.macromedia.com/dreamweaver)

This IDE is available for the Windows and Mac platforms. It provides visual layout tools so you can create a Web page by dragging elements around and clicking buttons to insert elements. Dreamweaver can write the HTML code for you. It includes the HomeSite editor so you can write your own code. It also supports PHP. Dreamweaver will set you back $399.00.

Komodo (www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/)

Komodo is offered for the Linux and Windows platforms. It’s an IDE for open source languages, including Pen and Python. as well as PHP. It’s offered for $29.95 for personal or educational use, and $295.00 for commercial use.

Maguma (www.maguma.com)

Maguma is available for Windows only. It’s an IDE for Apache, PHR and MySQL on Windows and comes in two versions at different costs: Maguma Studio Desktop and Maguma Studio Enterprise. which offers features for huge sites with multiple servers. Maguma Studio for PHP is a free version with support for PHP only.

PHPEdit (www.phpedit.com) 

This free IDE is available only for Windows.

Zend Studio (www.zend.com)

Zend Studio is offered for the Linux and Windows platforms. This IDE was developed by the people who developed the Zend engine, which is the engine under the hood of PHP. These people know PHP extremely well. Zend Studio will run you $195.00.