Rapid PHP
World's fastest PHP editor and PHP IDE
Rapid PHP editor is a faster and more powerful PHP editor for Windows combining features of a fully-packed PHP IDE with the speed of the Notepad. Rapid PHP is the most 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.
- The fastest PHP editor / PHP IDE
Loads much faster than any other PHP editor or PHP IDE with similar features
- Powerful syntax highlighting Updated!
Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Smarty, XML, SQL, Apache and more
- Code intelligence Updated!
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 Updated!
Coding features are up-to-date with modern standards
- Powerful CSS features Updated!
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 Updated!
xDebug PHP debugger, realtime PHP checker, spelling checker, W3 HTML and CSS validator, JSLint JavaScript checker
- Direct FTP/SFTP/FTPS Updated!
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
Why switch today?
- Start coding faster
Rapid PHP editor combines speed of a simple editor and power of a full-size PHP IDE allowing you to work much faster.
- Switching is easy
Interface and behavior is consistent with other editors. All essential features are right where they should be.
- Fully customizable
You can adjust text editor, menus, toolbars, shortcut keys and everything else to fit your needs perfectly.
Why Rapid PHP editor?
- Faster startup
Unlike with other bulky PHP IDEs, you do not have to wait while it loads.
- No clutter
Rapid PHP editor is quick, clean and lightweight. It is very powerful, yet not stuffed with useless buttons or panels.
- Superb FTP/SFTP/FTPS features
Upload/update your online website files in just a few clicks.
- A lot of integrated tools
Syntax checkers, validators, debuggers, beautifiers, prefixizers etc.
True all-in-one PHP IDE
When compared to other PHP editors and IDEs, Rapid PHP editor is also easily the most powerful PHP editor and PHP IDE in terms of HTML, CSS and JavaScript support with loads of helpful tools for all languages.
Beginner-friendly
Just learning to code PHP? Welcome abroad! Rapid PHP editor is really simple to work with yet powerful enough to give you a learning edge.
Detailed feature list
Text editor
- Syntax highlighting
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, Python, XML, WML, Perl, SQL, Apache, SASS, LESS
- Advanced text editor
Line numbering, gutter, margin, word wrap, block select and more
- Unicode support
UTF-8, UTF-8 without BOM, UTF-16
- Code folding
- Line highlighting
- Macro recorder
Search & navigate
- Go to anything
Instantly jump to any file, symbol, word or line
- Multi-highlighting
All instances of the selected text are highlighted
- Search and replace
Quick search, detailed search, regular expressions, detailed results and more
- Search and replace in files
- Superb navigation
Advanced bookmarks and quick jumps between recent places
- Bracket highlighting
- HTML tag highlighting
Easily detect matching and missing tags
Keystroke savers
- Auto-close brackets
- Auto-close quotes
- Smart Copy and Cut
If nothing is selected, word at cursor is cut/copied (usual shortcuts)
- Smart Paste
If nothing is selected, word at cursor is replaced (default shortcut Shift+Ctrl+V)
- Emmet plugin
User interface
- Both tabbed and MDI interface
- Quick interface switching
Hide/show all side panels with a single key
- Detailed customization
Workspace layout, keyboard shortcuts, text editor behavior, toolbars and menus etc.
Language tools
- Code intelligence
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Smarty
- Code explorer/navigator
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
- Integration with online reference
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
HTML and CSS
- HTML and CSS inspector
- HTML assistants
- HTML tag auto-close
- CSS assistants
box editor, gradient editor, shadow editor
- Support for mobile development
viewport assistant, CSS media queries
- Support for Google fonts
- CSS code beautifier
- Built-in CSS prefixizer
- SASS and LESS support
- Integration with W3 validators
HTML and CSS
- Integration with CSE HTML Validator
- Integration with HTML Tidy for HTML5
JavaScript
- jQuery support
- JavaScript code beautifier
- Integration with JSLint
PHP
- Realtime PHP syntax checker
- PHP debugger (xDebug)
Built-in web server and zero-configuration package available
- PHP framework support
Prado, CodeIgniter, Yii, Symfony
- Smarty support
with code intelligence
- PHP code beautifier
- PHP 7 ready
Other languages
- Apache .htaccess file support
Apache syntax highlighting
File management
- Built-in file explorer
- Edit/save directly on FTP/SFTP/FTPS server or quickly publish all changed files
- Built-in FTP/SFTP/FTPS browser
- Project management
Maintain separate projects, search within project, publish changes with a single click
- SVN and Git integration
with TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit
- One-click HTML publishing
Publish HTML file and all linked files (images, css, js) get uploaded too
Preview
- Built-in preview
Chrome and IE rendering, split-screen mode, screen-size testing
- XRay for HTML/CSS
- One-click preview in web browser
- Preview via web server
external or built-in
Other
- HTML color picker
Pick-from-screen feature, file colors, project colors, color palettes, lightness adjustment, rgb/rgba/hsl/hsla support
- Inline ToDo
with TODO, FIXME and CHANGED markers
- Multi-item clipboard
- Code snippet library
Code templates, assignable shortcuts
- Quick SQL explorer
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, SQLite etc.
- Portable mode
Run from USB stick
- Easy settings import/export
- Crash recovery system
- Diff tool integration
