phpDesigner Alternatives for Linux

    phpDesigner is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Apache NetBeans, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to phpDesigner and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to phpDesigner are PhpStorm (Paid), Pinegrow Web Editor (Paid), Bluefish Editor (Free, Open Source) and WebStorm (Paid).

    This page was last updated Jul 17, 2021
    1. Development Environment, Tooling Platform and Application Framework.
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      Apache NetBeans vs phpDesigner opinions
      Most users think Apache NetBeans is a great alternative to phpDesigner.
      RemovedUser Netbean is very heavy , but this ide is very fast and simple
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    2. Enjoy productive PHP and web development with PhpStorm. Take advantage of deep code understanding, top-notch coding assistance, and support for all major tools and frameworks.
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    4. Pinegrow is a Mac, Windows and Linux web editor that lets you build responsive websites faster with live multi-page editing, CSS & SASS styling, CSS Grid editor and smart components for Bootstrap, Foundation and WordPress.
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    5. Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
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    6. JetBrains WebStorm is a commercial IDE for JavaScript, CSS & HTML built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform. WebStorm provides automatic code completion, on-the-fly code analysis, refactoring support and VCS integration.
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    8. Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...
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    9. BlueGriffon is a WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards.

      Discontinued

      Last version 3.1 was released in December 2017 according to their GitHub repository.

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    10. CodeLite

      • Free • Open Source
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      • Linux
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      CodeLite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and Node.js programming languages.
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    11. KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

      Discontinued

      The project seems to be discontinued. Latest stable version, 0.7.10, was released on 2007 and last development version, 0.8b3, on 2010, but the program is still downloadable from the official website.

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    12. CodeLobster - Free portable PHP IDE with support Drupal, Smarty, WordPress, Joomla, JQuery, CodeIgniter, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CakePHP, Facebook, Symfony
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