NuSphere PhpED

6.8easy start · #13 of 23
in PHP IDEs

Free to practise onnot on record
Free trialyes
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows.

NuSphere PhpED is ranked #13 of 23 in PHP IDEs on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.

NuSphere PhpED plans and pricing

All plans

PhpED Personal $81 once Individual developers only · 1 year of free upgrades · cannot be purchased by companies or reimbursed by a business nusphere.com · 30 Sept 2026

PhpED Professional $129 once 1 license · companies and organizations · 1 year of support and free upgrades nusphere.com · 30 Sept 2026

PhpED Team4 $387 once 4 licenses · companies and organizations · 1 year of support and free upgrades nusphere.com · 30 Sept 2026

Compared on PHP IDEs

Free plan: No
PHP refactoring: Yes
Unit testing tools: Yes
Database tools: Yes
Remote development: Yes
Supported platforms: multi-platform

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The record

Product: PhpED is an integrated development environment for PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Smarty, XHTML, and other languages.
Editor: The editor offers PHP 5.3–8.4 support, syntax highlighting, code folding, Unicode editing, search, and a diff viewer.
Debugger: The debugger supports local and remote sessions, breakpoints, call-stack inspection, variable inspection, and parallel debugging.
Profiler: The profiler includes a sampling-based Performance Explorer with timeline, call tree, flame graph, and stack chart views, plus classic line-level profiling.
Security: The features page says debugger communications use TLS 1.3 and certificate-authenticated debugger access is available to PRO customers only.
Deployment: PhpED supports deployment over FTP, FTPS, SSH/SFTP, and WebDAV, and also lists Windows Share (Samba) support for local networks.
Integrations: Listed integrations include PHPUnit, jQuery, extJS, Tortoise SVN, Tortoise CVS, PHP Documentor, HTML Tidy, Code Formatter, HTML Validator, and a CVS client.
Database support: The database client supports SQLite, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and InterBase.
Frameworks: The framework support page names CakePHP, Joomla, CodeIgniter, Yii, Symfony, Prado, and Zend.
Trial: NuSphere offers a 14-day fully functional PhpED 23.0 trial for free.
Platforms: PhpED is offered for Windows; NuSphere describes running it on Mac or Linux using Wine or Parallels, with some IDE functions unavailable under Wine.
Support: The Professional license includes one year of web-based technical support and free upgrades to major versions; the Personal license includes one year of upgrades and updates.
Company: NuSphere describes itself as a company providing applications and technologies for business and says it works with the open-source community.
Headquarters: Reno, Nevada, USA

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best PHP IDEs in 2026#13 of 23

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