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InfoWorld review: Eight PHP power tools
Eclipse PDT, NetBeans, NuSphere PhpED, and Zend Studio lead a capable field of IDEs for Web developers
NetBeans IDE
NetBeans is a free, multilanguage IDE available from NetBeans.org. Though NetBeans began life as a Java IDE, versions exist for Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Groovy, C/C++, and PHP. The NetBeans download site offers language-specific bundles, as well as a 300MB-plus kitchen-sink version that installs everything that NetBeans has to offer.
The IDE is Java-based, and it will run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris. We installed the 6.7.1 version on Windows. NetBeans downloads as a self-installing executable, and the PHP installation includes code editors for PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. NetBeans PHP is also equipped with explorers for databases and Web services, as well as interfaces into a Hudson continuous integration server and the Bugzilla and JIRA issue trackers.
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