Codelobster primarily is a free, portable integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP. It also has support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Some of the awesome features that make Codelobster tick includes:
- All code highlights depends on the code type, mixed code are also supported, thus the area of HTML will be highlighted as HTML, PHP as PHP, and JavaScript as JavaScript in a the same file.
- There is possibility of choice from color schemes derived from other popular IDEs.
- Powerful autocompletion for HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript, including HTML5 and CSS3. For PHP, the structure of project is fully recognized and understood. For example, the complete list of methods of the currently edited file at the sidebar.
- HTML/CSS inspector on the type of Firebug, which easily to correlate the selected elements of page with a code and proper style.
- Context help on all supported languages. By pressing F1 key, the page with detailed description for current tag, attribute or function will be opened.
- PHP debugger. PHP debugger allows executing PHP scripts incrementally, watching the values of all variables in every line.
- SQL manager allows to produce all necessary actions with a database – to add, delete, edit a structure and records in tables, to export data, execute SQL queries. Highlighting and auto-completion works for SQL files also.
- Support of FTP allows to work straight with a remote server and to do all necessary changes with files
- And other useful utilities such as pair highlighting, blocks selection, collapsing, tool-tips, navigation on descriptions of functions and included files on holding the CTRL key, viewing of structure of files and project, preview in a browser, bookmarks etc.
Whatever JavaScript and PHP framework you use; there is a plugin available for it to improve your workflow.
Currently, there are plugins for:
- CMS: Drupal, Joomla, WordPress
- PHP frameworks: CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Yii, Laravel
- JavaScript library: jQuery, Node.js
- Smarty and Twig template engines
Get yourself a copy of Codelobster today. A trial will convince you.