Rapid PHP

Rapid PHP editor is a powerful, quick and sophisticated PHP editor with features of a fully-loaded PHP IDE and speed of the Notepad.

Rapid PHP editor is a fast and powerful PHP editor for Windows combining features of a fully-packed PHP IDE with the speed of the Notepad. Rapid PHP is a complete all-in-one software for coding PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web development languages with tools for debugging, validating, reusing, navigating and formatting your code. With Rapid PHP editor you can code smarter, save time and increase productivity. Version 2016 is a huge leap forward both visually and feature-wise. With heavily re-vamped user interface and tons of features added and fine-tuned

Key Features:

• Fast PHP editor / PHP IDE: Loads much faster than any other PHP editor or PHP IDE with similar features.
  
• Powerful syntax highlighting: Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Smarty, XML, SQL, Apache and more.
  
• Code intelligence: Tons of intelligent code completion, navigation and suggestion features for PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Smarty.
  
• Powerful editor: Unicode support, bracket-matching, code folding, auto-complete, auto-replace, multi-highlight and more.
  
• HTML5 and CSS3 ready: Coding features are up-to-date with modern standards.
  
• Powerful CSS features: Inspector, compatibility watch, prefixizer, code assistants, browser preview and much more.
  
• Advanced search and replace: Quick search, detailed search, file search, regular expression support, detailed results and more.
  
• Smarty & framework support: Powerful support for Smarty PHP template engine and popular PHP frameworks.
• Debugger & validators: xDebug PHP debugger, realtime PHP checker, spelling checker, W3 HTML and CSS validator, JSLint JavaScript checker
  
• Direct FTP/SFTP/FTPS: Edit directly on your web server or publish local development copy updates with a single click
  
• Efficient code re-use: Code snippet library and code templates with assignable shortcuts
  
• Loads of tools: Code beautifier, dynamic ToDo, color picker, XRay etc.
  

Rapid PHP - Features

General Features New Features in Version 2008 Rapid PHP editor is a powerful, quick and sophisticated PHP editor that extends far beyond the essentials of regular PHP editing environments. Convenient features enable you to instantly create and edit not only PHP, but also HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code, while integrated tools allow you to easily debug, validate, reuse, navigate and format your code. Whether you are a professional developer or pure enthusiast, with Rapid PHP editor you can get your job done faster, save time and increase productivity.

Rapid PHP Editor is the world's only PHP editor that includes full-scale HTML, CSS and JavaScript editors. Now you can accomplish more with a single tool.

• Speed - loads very quickly
• Sophisticated, fully customizable and familiar text editor
• Syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WML, XML and SQL
• UTF-8 Unicode Support
• Easily navigate your code with Code Explorer
• Lookup PHP function parameters with Function Hints
• Lookup functions, variables and properties with Auto Complete
• Debug PHP code with xDebug debugger
• Validate PHP code with Syntax Check
• Realtime PHP Syntax Check as you type
• Built-in web server for easy PHP preview
• Integration with PHP, HTML and CSS documentation
• Save and open files directly from FTP/SFTP
• Project management and FTP/SFTP publishing
• SQL database connectivity (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Interbase)
• Matching bracket highlighting
• Matching and missing HTML tag highlighting
• Search and Replace with Regular Expression Support
• Search and Replace in files
• Spell Checker for text in HTML code and TXT files
• Multi Item Clipboard
• Code snippet library and code templates
• Ready to use Code Templates
• Advanced HTML editing with Auto Complete, Inspector and other tools
• Advanced CSS editing with built-in CSS editor
• Advanced JavaScript editing with built-in JavaScript editor
• SVN Support via TortoiseSVN and shell menus from File Explorer
• Countless goodies (code collapse, line highlighting, text indentation etc.)

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General Features

Interface

• Multiple/tabbed document interface
• Taskbar (Document Tabs)
• Familiar MS Office style toolbars
• Workspace layout management
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts

Text Editor

• Line numbering, Gutter, Margin
• UTF-8 Unicode support
• Word wrap
• Multiple level Undo/Redo
• Search and replace with regular expression support
• Bookmarking
• Code collapse
• Bracket highlighting
• Block select
• Simple HTML tag name and CSS property name checking

Code Syntax Highlighting

• PHP syntax highlighting
• HTML syntax highlighting
• CSS syntax highlighting
• JavaScript syntax highlighting
• VBScript syntax highlighting
• ASP syntax highlighting
• XML syntax highlighting
• SQL syntax highlighting

PHP Code Writing

• PHP Function Hints
• PHP Auto Complete
• PHP Syntax Check
• PHP Code Explorer
• PHP Code Snippets
• HTML to PHP conversion
• Insert PHP Server Variable

HTML and CSS Code Writing

• Code Inspector for CSS properties
• Auto Complete for CSS properties
• HTML Color Picker
• CSS Selector Creator
• CSS Selector Browser
• CSS Checked and Validator

JavaScript Code Writing

• Auto Complete for JavaScript objects
• JavaScript function hints
• JavaScript Code Explorer

Connectivity Features

• Open documents from HTTP server
• Open/save documents from/to FTP server
• Automatically publish HTML with linked files (images, css, javascripts) to FTP

Code Previewing

• Built-In Preview (Internet Explorer and FireFox)
• Vertical and horizontal Split Screen Preview for real-time HTML preview
• Preview in External Browser (w/o saving the file)
• Preview on a web server

Productivity Tools

• Find and Replace in files
• Project management and publishing to FTP
• Multiple item Clipboard
• Built-in File Explorer
• Code Library
• SQL Database Explorer

Help and Reference

• Integration with online PHP documentation
• Built-in HTML 4.0 Reference
• Built-in CSS Reference

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New Features in Version 2008

• Matching and missing HTML tag highlighting
  The new HTML tag block highlighting features make navigating and reading HTML code easier. Missing HTML tags are highlighted in red, so you can quickly spot and fix HTML errors.
• Missing bracket highlighting
  Matching and missing bracket highlighting helps reading code and makes bracket errors easy to detect.
• Code templates
  Code templates are code snippets from the snippet Library that can be inserted quickly by typing a callword (a pre-assigned id) and hitting Ctrl+J or simply pressing Ctrl+J and selecting from the list of snippets that have user-defined callwords assigned.
• HTML tag editing via dialog windows
  The most popular HTML tags can now be edited via special dialog windows (tag editors). You may also call this feature right-click tag editing. To invoke this feature, simply right-click an HTML tag and click Edit this HTML tag.
• Code Collapse based on code
  Now you can enable Code Collapse that understands your code and offers to quickly hide and show logical fragments of your code. This can help reading and navigating the code more easily.
• Auto-complete and auto-close curly brackets
  If you prefer, you can now make curly brackets complete and indent automatically. This is useful when writing JavaScript and PHP code. Many developers will find this a great time saver.
• Improved XRay
  XRay is a preview feature that can visually highlight HTML elements right inside the HTML page, it will also provide a lot of useful information about the selected HTML element, for example, width, height, top and left coordinates, applied CSS rules etc.
• Built-in Secure FTP support
  You can now use the built-in FTP and project management features with SFTP sites. The SFTP support is direct and does not require any additional programs to be installed.
• Improved FTP features
  FTP features have been updated. Now you can delete multiple files and directories at once, you can also delete non-empty directory. SOCKS proxy servers are now supported and you can customize the filter string for the LIST command. Compatibility with various FTP servers has been improved as well.
• Faster and more sophisticated File Explorer
  File Explorer now works faster and you can choose between compact context menus or full-size Windows shell menus. Various other aspects of the File Explorer have been improved.
• SVN and CVS support via shell extensions
  The new File Explorer fully supports SVN and CVS version management system shell extensions such as TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS. You can see the icon overlays and access the shell menu features.
• Realtime PHP syntax check
  Realtime PHP syntax check validates your PHP code as you type. The same feature is also available for Ruby code.
• Find Declaration command
  Find Declaration command allows you to quickly find the declaration of a function or the first occurrence of a variable. This saves time and makes life another tiny bit easier.
• Open File at Cursor command
  Now you can open any linked file from any place in the code with a single click. This will surely save you time on some occasions.
• Improved PHP auto complete and function hints
  PHP auto complete and function hints now support includes. You no longer have to open the included library files to search for function declarations and class attributes.
• Improved support for USB installs
  The software has been updated to work well from all USB memory sticks. Bring your favorite editor with you wherever you go.
• Improved performance and robustness
  The new version is a little bit faster, more robust and manages memory more efficiently.
• Countless other improvements
  Version 2008 brings in too many new features to mention, some of the other great improvements include:
  • Improved text editor
  • Download project files from FTP/SFTP server
  • Quickly select text between braces
  • When editing CSS, corresponding Inspector row is selected automatically
  • Replacement tokens now can use single input multiple times
  • Set PHP breakpoints by clicking on the Gutter (left side)
  • Clear all PHP breakpoints at once
  • All PHP code can now be highlighted with solid background

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Rapid PHP - System Requirements

Supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista