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Best lightweight IDE for PHP programming? [message #1835033]

Mon, 23 November 2020 12:19

Eclipse User

Hi, I have a very slow machine (Atom with 1 gig of ram). I normally use Notepad++ but now want more advance features like a debugger, code completition, etc.

I have tried the following and didn't like them:

PHPStorm (slow and memory hungry)

Netbeans (same as PHPStorm)

Eclipse PDT (same as PHPStorm)

Sublime Text 2 ( many plugins are a real pain to get working, it would take me weeks to have it as I want. Some plugins gave me errors I couldn't solve after searching a lot. )

Do you know any lightweight PHP IDE that is good enough, and would offer at least code completition, debuggin (xdebug?) and detect syntax errors as I type?

Re: Best lightweight IDE for PHP programming? [message #1835972 is a reply to message #1835033]

Thu, 17 December 2020 09:14

Eclipse User

I used SciTE and EclipsePDT for several years while I was learning, then I tried Netbeans, PHPStorm, and a couple others. I finally choose Geany and used it for 2 years before I switched to Sublime text 2.

Linux: Geany has code-completion based on what documents you have open. I have even used it when writing letters as it knows what words you have already used. Geany has nice themes and is very lightweight.

Windows: SciTE is very light and fast. No custom code completion though.

Re: Best lightweight IDE for PHP programming? [message #1849065 is a reply to message #1835033]

Sat, 01 January 2022 07:09

Eclipse User

quel opera wrote on Mon, 23 November 2020 17:19

Hi, I have a very slow machine (Atom with 1 gig of ram). I normally use Notepad++ but now want more advance features like a debugger, code completition, etc.

I have tried the following and didn't like them:

PHPStorm (slow and memory hungry)

Netbeans (same as PHPStorm)

Eclipse PDT (same as PHPStorm)

Sublime Text 2 ( many plugins are a real pain to get working, it would take me weeks to have it as I want. Some plugins gave me errors I couldn't solve after searching a lot. )

Do you know any lightweight PHP IDE that is good enough, and would offer at least code completition, debuggin (xdebug?) and detect syntax errors as I type?

Same need here.

Re: Best lightweight IDE for PHP programming? [message #1849383 is a reply to message #1849065]

Sat, 15 January 2022 02:00

Eclipse User

You have listed pretty much all of them.

If you want to go on a more professional side, use Laravel. It's the best framework.

Re: Best lightweight IDE for PHP programming? [message #1869633 is a reply to message #1835033]

Tue, 20 August 2024 03:18

Eclipse User

Given your constraints with a slow machine, you might want to try Visual Studio Code (VSCode). It is relatively lightweight and offers a good balance between performance and features. With the PHP Intelephense extension, VSCode provides code completion, syntax error detection, and debugging support. Additionally, it supports Xdebug for debugging PHP code

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