tag from other documents

• Selection between a variation of doctypes
• Code Formatter for HTML

 
CSS

• Support for CSS3
• Code Explorer for CSS
• CSS code completion (code insight)
• Show CSS syntax errors in real-time
• Selector wizards (simple, class, id, contextual, child, sibling and pseudo)
• Go to any CSS class or id located in either your document, project or opened files
• Code Formatter for CSS
• Code Minifier for CSS

 
JavaScript

• Code Explorer for JavaScript
• Code completion (code insight) for JavaScript with OOP support
• Code tip for JavaScript (helps you completing your functions as you type)
• Support for the JavaScript framework jQuery (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
• Support for the JavaScript framework YUI (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
• Support for the JavaScript framework Dojo (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
• Support for the JavaScript framework MooTools (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
• Support for the JavaScript framework Prototype (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
• Support for the JavaScript framework Ext JS (code completion, code tip, go to declaration etc.)
• Go to any JavaScript function or variables declared in either your document, project or opened files
• Code Formatter for Javascript
• Code Minifier for JavaScript

 
Project and File Management

• Files located in your project can be stored both local and remote
• Go to any PHP declaration in project with filtering by classes, interfaces, functions, variables or constants
• Access all your classes, extended classes, interfaces, properties, functions, constants and variables declared in your project or framework through the code tip and code completion
• Work with multiple frameworks (both PHP and JavaScript)
• Support for working with any PHP framework
• Support for working with popular JavaScript frameworks (see JavaScript)
• Support and integration for TortoiseSVN
• File browser
• Go to any CSS class or id located in your project
• Go to any JavaScript function or variable located in your project
• Localhost support
• FTP/SFTP browser and management
• Advanced Filter management

 
Advanced Editor

• Advanced and fully customizable editor
• Support for bookmarks
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Drag and drop support
• Show special characters
• Support for both tabs and space indention
• Print (with preview)
• Export to Latex, rtf and html
• Encodings: ANSI, UTF-8 (with and without BOM), UTF 16 LE/BE (with and without BOM)
• File Formats: Windows, Unix and Mac
• Auto completions (code templates)
• Auto corrections
• Advanced search and replace including support for regular expression, wildcards, projects and files
• Gutter, margin and line numbering
• Highlight matching and un-matching brackets and tags
• Bracket highlighting
• Matching text highlighting

 
Help and References

• Integration with the PHP manual in phpDesigner 8 (both the standard and extended edition of the PHP manual)
• HTML manual
• CSS manual
• Pear manual
• JavaScript manual
• SQL manual

 
Tools

• Code snippet support with customizable categories
• Code template support with customizable categories
• Code libraries for PHP, phpDocumentor, Smarty, SQL (MySQL, MSSQL 2000, MSSQL 7, Ingres, Interbase 6, Oracle, Sybase), HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, Java, C#, Perl, Python and Ruby
• Timestamp (with auto update)
• Differencing and merging tool
• Convert case (lowercase, uppercase, capitalize)
• Application manager
• Todo and bug manager
• Inline todo and bug manager (based on todo and bug comments in the code)
• Web search (contextual search on the big engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Koders, php.net etc.)
• Database browser (using phpMyAdmin)
• Preview with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari

 
User Interface

• Support for more than 15 different themes
• Multilanguage support (current more than 20 languages are supported)
• Fully customizable workspace
• Drag-, group and floatable toolbars and panels
• Customizable shortcuts
• Tabbed and document interface

Supported Operating Systems:

• Compatible with Windows 8 and 7 32/64bit, Vista and XP.
• 100 MB Hard Disk

PHP Compatibility:

• Supports PHP version 4.x, 5.x and above