Great app to get up and running, to learn PHP quickly
This is a quick and easy app to help you quickly hash out some PHP code. Runs quickly and painlessly in plaintext or your web browser! Very good for students learning PHP or those who want to fiddle. Reminds me of jsfiddle, but for PHP.
Neat tool, and really approachable for those learning PHP. The best feature is that there is no need to run a local webserver, transfer files, etc, just two panes - source and output. Theres a direct correlation betwen what youre writing and what you see as output.
Features Id like to see:
- syntax highlighting and maybe different colour themes
- output HTML to a browser of your choice (when I use the Run in browser feature, it uses my default .html app, which isnt a browser, but an editor)
- perhaps save/load/share functionality - send your snippet to a friend to look at
- code completion/PHP linter? maybe a bit overkill for this app, but because its PHP-specific, I cant see that it would be terribly difficult to get working
- last but not least, integration with php.net in a side panel (web browser) to look up the function names and their arguments. (perhaps bundle it with the app for offline viewing?)
All in all, its great at what it does, and it also has potential to grow into much more.
Thanks!
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PHP Code Tester, v1.0.6