To be able to work fully on web sites development you obviously need a modern and convenient editor. There is a plenty of proprietary software for that, but we would like to emphasize software free absolutely which has powerful functionality and at the same time is easy and user friendly. This software is Codelobster PHP Edition.

Let’s review some important features and advantages of this application:

All code is highlighted by different colors depending on its type besides the mixed code is also supported so HTML code will be highlighted as HTML, PHP code as PHP, and JavaScript code as JavaScript in the same file. There is an ability to select a certain color schema including popular IDEs.

There is powerful HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript autocomplete including HTML 5 and CSS3. PHP project structure is recognized completely and a full list of methods drops down in appropriate places.

HTML/CSS inspector by type of FireBug allows easy correlating selected element of pages with code and proper style.

• Context help for all supported languages. Upon press F1 button a page with complete description of a current tag, attribute, function, etc. from specified official sites is opened.
• PHP debugger allows developers to execute PHP scripts step-by-step keep tracking values of all variables in every line.
• SQL manager helps to perform all necessary operations with database: to add, delete, edit structure and records in tables, export data, execute SQL queries. Highlighting and autocomplete are available for SQL files.
• FTP supporting allows developers to work directly with a remote server and perform all necessary changes with result preview.
• The portable option is a way to use the editor without pre-installation.
• The rest useful features are pair highlighting, selection of blocks, collapsing, tooltips, navigation through function descriptions and included files by holding pressed CTRL, viewing structure of files and projects, browser preview, book-marks, and other standard features for operating with code.