Lightweight PHP editor and PHP IDE

Designed to make you more productive

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?

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Version 18.2 | Windows
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This is really setting a new standard in PHP development. Your programs work at my pace and I never have problems with them.

— Murray Chapman, Freelance Web Developer

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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.

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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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