Rapid PHP editor is a faster and more powerful PHP code 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 AI assistance and tools for debugging, validating, reusing, navigating and formatting your code. What's new in the Rapid PHP editor version 2025?

I have been hand-coding for 30+ years and I just want to say how I appreciate the way your software operates.

— Becky Perry, Designs by CM

More happy customers

· The fastest PHP editor / 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

· Built-in AI assistant New!
Generate, modify and optimize code automatically, solve coding challenges *

· HTML5, CSS3, PHP 8 ready Updated!
Coding features are up-to-date with modern standards

· Advanced search and replace
Goto anything, quick search, detailed search, file search, regular expressions, detailed results and more

· Twig, Smarty & framework support
Powerful support for Smarty template engine, also Twig 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 code editor and power of a full-size 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 is also easily the most powerful PHP code editor and PHP IDE in terms of HTML, CSS and JavaScript support with loads of helpful tools for all languages.

Powerful AI features *

AI-powered assistant can help you generate, modify and optimize code automatically, as well as find answers and solve coding challenges right within the comfort of your code editor.

Beginner-friendly

Just learning to code PHP? Welcome aboard! 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 minimap

· Code folding

· Line highlighting

· Split editing

· 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

· Flexible tab-based interface
Draggable and dockable tabs, multi-monitor support

· 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

· Inline color preview in CSS

· Support for mobile development
viewport assistant, CSS media queries

· Support for Google fonts

· HTML and CSS code beautifier

· CSS prefixizer

· CSS minifier

· SASS and LESS support

· Integration with W3 validators
HTML and CSS

· Integration with CSS HTML Validator

· Integration with HTML Tidy for HTML5

· Framework support
Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 4, Bootstrap 5

JavaScript

· JavaScript framework support
jQuery, React, Vue.js

· JavaScript code beautifier

· JavaScript code minifier

· Integration with JSHint

PHP

· Realtime PHP syntax checker

· PHP debugger (xDebug)
Built-in web server and zero-configuration package available

· PHP framework support
Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Yii, Nette, Prado, CakePHP, WordPress

· Smarty support
with code intelligence

· PHP code beautifier

· PHP 8 ready

Other languages

· Apache .htaccess file support
Apache syntax highlighting

AI-powered assistance *

· Integrated AI-Chat / AI assistant
ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4

· Automatically write, modify, validate code

· AI-prompt history & library

· Quick, one-click commands
Check, Explain, Simplify, Add Comments

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 Edge 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

Plugin support

· Add your own features by writing plugins
plugins can be written in JScript and can utilize powerful Chromium engine

· Plugin catalog

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

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