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1. Netbeans IDE

Netbeans is free and open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which supports all major porgramming languages including PHP.  You can download Netbeans only for PHP, Javscript, and CSS from http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html .

My first rank goes to Netbeans. It has the following features

2. Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools)

              Eclipse IDE is always best for developer to customize for their any favorite programming language . Developer needs to download the PDT plugin from the web site to enable the PHP editor in eclipse (www.eclipse.org/pdt) or Easy eclipse  for PHP can be used for dedicated PHP environment. Eclipse  PHP IDE also supports code completion, CSS and Javascript support

3. Aptana Studio 3

           Aptana Studio is the dedicated IDE for PHP, Python, CSS and JavaScript. It is built from Eclipse Scratch. It Supports most of features like Netbeans also light weight IDE. It can be downloaded from the following web site

http://www.aptana.com/downloads

4. Geany Light Weight IDE

           Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany. you can install geany through software center or synaptic package manager in Ubuntu

The basic features of Geany are:

• Syntax highlighting
• Code completion
•  Auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
•  Many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
•  Embedded terminal emulation

5. gPHPedit