Title: Good php editor?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Good php editor?

 *  [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/)
 * Can anyone recommend a good php editor. Preferrably a free or open source one?
   
   Since 2.0 came out, wordpad just isn’t cutting the mustard. 🙂
 * thanks.

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 *  [dgstinner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgstinner/)
 * (@dgstinner)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308087)
 * Try Crimson Editor.
    [http://www.crimsoneditor.com/](http://www.crimsoneditor.com/)
 *  [michael_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael_/)
 * (@michael_)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308088)
 * There are so many out there 🙂
 * I have tested many editors and for about one year I am using [PS Pad](http://www.pspad.com/en/).
   It has many features, syntax highlighting for many languages, lot of HTML features,
   project tree, and many more.
    I am using PS Pad for CSS, (X)HTML, PHP and ini
   files.
 *  Thread Starter [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308091)
 * thanks, I’ll try both!
 *  Thread Starter [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308140)
 * I like that PS Pad. The crimsoneditor was nice, too. But I was able to get FTP
   to work in PS Pad.
    Nice to be able to edit on the fly like that. thanks.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308159)
 * You can find a good list of recommended plain text editors (aka “php editors”)
   here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor)
 *  [Mike Koepke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_koepke/)
 * (@mike_koepke)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308167)
 * I use [ Notepad++](http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) for all my
   source file editing. It makes a great replacement for Notepad and Wordpad for
   doing any sort of programming work. It supports any source of programming language
   you can think of with a full range of features.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308170)
 * Please note for the future that:
 * A. It’s likely we won’t know what OS you’re running off of. Telling us this would
   improve suggestions and recommendations.
 * B. This questions comes up often (quite!) on the forums.
 * C. The link macmanx provides above covers the gamut on this request.
 * D. I’m partial to [TextPad](http://textpad.com) (Windows), due in large part 
   to using it for so long. It’s shareware, but the download trial is fully featured.
 *  [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308192)
 * I too am using NotePad++
 * Another good editor I found is PHP Designer at [http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php](http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php)
 *  [cmoore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmoore/)
 * (@cmoore)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-php-editor/#post-308207)
 * NotePad++ for me as well in Windows
    [Bluefish](http://bluefish.openoffice.nl)
   in Linux

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