Rapid PHP is a powerful web programming language editor that specializes in PHP, but with capabilities to write and edit HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The user interface is very intuitive and easy to use. It supports tabbed browsing, offering you more flexibility when working with multiple documents at once. The program includes small wizards for creating CSS documents and the structure of HTML documents. You will also be able to create documents from predefined templates, or from templates created by you. The application has a handy code explorer that will facilitate code search, especially on functions, classes, variables, and other commands of each supported language. The program has some other powerful features like auto-completion, code-highlighting in bright colors, syntax correction, and the ability to visualize your own projects within the editor. In addition, the program also includes a vast library of small scripts ready to be inserted into your projects. Scripts of ASP and Ruby languages are included too.
Finally, this powerful program integrates other nice features like a file explorer, a FTP client, and a clipboard manager, which makes it a great option for both, novice and advanced web programmers.
v11.0 [Sep 21, 2011]
- Support for HTML5 - the future standard of HTML. Be up to date, prepared for the future. HTML5 is the next generation of HTML standard and many of the exciting new features of HTML5 already work in the modern web browsers. This makes it a good practice to develop new websites with HTML5 in mind.
- Improved support for CSS3 - the new standard of CSS. While full CSS3 support has yet to come to the web browsers of today, many of its new features already work and can be used by web developers.
- New CSS definitions - IE 9, FireFox 4, Safari 5, iPhone 4/ Be on top! Develop and validate code that is compatible with the latest web browsers - IE 9, FireFox 4, Opera 10, Safari 5 and even the mobile web browser of iPhone 4.
- Preview and code editor synchronization. The development HTML pages and design layouts has become so much easier with the feature that allows to automatically synchronize cursor position in the code with the corresponding visual element in the preview area and vice versa.
- Easy navigation between recent cursor positions in your code. Work faster and smarter. Now you can navigate between last visited places in your code using Back and Forward commands or their respective shortcut keys just like you jump between previously visited web pages in a web browser. This will save you a lot of time and scrolling.
- Greatly improved performance with large files. Large files with extraordinarily long lines are no more a problem for the editor. The updated parsing engine ensures much smoother text editor performance when working with such files.
- Macro recording. Now you can automate some of the text editing tasks by using the built-in macro recording and playback features.
- Support for JavaScript and PHP frameworks. Get more productive with the newly introduced support for popular programming frameworks such as jQuery for JavaScript and Prado, CodeIgniter, Yii and Symfony for PHP. Frameworks are supported in Auto Complete and Language Browser.
- Support for Smarty template engine. If you use Smarty then this is a must-have feature for you. Smarty support includes syntax highlighting, proper *.tpl file handling and Auto Complete.
- Improved FTP stability and compatibility. Updated FTP keep-alive algorithm ensures fewer dropped connections while being able to set passive mode for every connection separately gives you more flexibility with various FTP servers.
- Improved project management. Save time and increase productivity with more flexible project management features. Now you can specify files and folders that you want to exclude from your project.
- Improved Find and Find in Files. Find what you need faster and easier with improved search features.
- Find windows is now a bit larger
- Find in Files works faster
- Improved regular expression support
- Various search algorithm improvements
- Integration with compare tools. Save time and call your favorite diff tool right from the editor. You can use any of the commercial tools or simply grab the excellent WinMerge free of charge.
- Many minor but effective usability enhancements. Attention to details is what makes our code editors superior. There are various tiny enhancements to improve your overall experience.
- Double-click initiated text selection is now possible
- Middle-click close of a tab is now more consistent with other programs
- Preview area is now refreshed automatically when switching between documents
- Product activation is no more necessary from each user account
- All of your settings are saved during version upgrade
- Click on the status bar on the position info opens Go To box
- Many icons have been updated to make your experience more visually pleasing
- And more...
- Extensively tested with 64-bit version of Windows 7. Version 2011 has been not only tested but fully developed on the 64-bit version of Windows 7. This ensures better compatibility and less glitches caused by 64-bit operating systems.
- Countless other improvements. Version 2011 brings in too many smaller new features and enhancements to mention, some of the other great improvements include:
- Google Chrome has been added to the standard preview browsers
- New character entities have been added
- ANSI files can now be auto-detected as UTF-8 without BOM
- Multiple CSS classes are supported by the HTML auto complete
- Code collapse now works in JavaScript
- Bracket highlighting now works within strings
- PHP code explorer now synchronizes with code
- Find Declaration command for PHP now works better with libraries and includes
- Updated function list of PHP auto complete
- Updated ASP variables and object definitions
- Improved file backup handling
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