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PHP Development Environment

 		8/9/2020 10:27:26 AM
PHPRunner General questions
J
 Jan K. van Dalen author

Good day everyone,
Ok, I have developing in the windows world for the past 20 years. In this case the Development environment choice is clearly Visual Studio (for C#).
Starting to learn PHP and was wondering what Development environment (in addition to PHPRunner) do you guys recommend. Seems like a candy store full of flavors out there.
Any recommendations?
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 		MikeT 8/9/2020

If you can afford it, I'd go with phpStorm, it's the most complete IDE in my opinion. But it's also big and has a lot of features.

There are also very good smaller IDEs like CodeLobster or rapidPHP.
In the end you'll probably have to spend some time with the demo version to see what suits you best.
Depending on the complexity and what you're doing you can also get a lot done with just an editor that has good plugins, e.g. Visual Studio Code.

An important part is also the whole (local) development setup, so integration between dev tools and local server etc pp.
Admin 8/9/2020

We do not really need to write much code outside of PHPRunner but I've heard nothing but praises about PhpStorm.
If you are just getting started Visual Studio Code will do just fine.