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Ok, so phpDesigner?

The best way to describe phpDesigner's history / beginnings (and MPSOFTWARE) is by the man who created it, Michael Pham.

MPSOFTWARE (Michael Pham Software) started out as a hobby back in 1998 in the primary school with developing software for developing and maintaining websites with the end-user in mind. Today, 11 years later, MPSOFTWARE is still privately held in Denmark and owned by Michael Pham, though things have evolved quite a bit with millions of downloads of phpDesigner and htmlGate worldwide in more than 200 countries.

And again, what better way to describe phpDesigner itself, than to let the man himself (Michael Pham) describe it

PHP Development - PHP IDE's - phpDesigner

There are many PHP IDE's (integrated development environment) available, both free and commerical. One of the best is phpDesigner.

What is an IDE?

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE typically consists of:

a source code editor
an interpreter
a debugger
integration of a version control system (such as Subversion, CVS, or GIT)

IDE's are meant to simplify a programmer's code and to enhance thir development and productivity.

What's in store for PHP and the future?

Along with the active development of PHP Version 5, PHP Version 6 is also under development. As of December 2009, it has no date set for release. The major changes involved in PHP Version 6 include:

Unicode support
Scurity improvements which removes the loathed register_globals, magic_quotes, and safe_mode
Along with many other optimizations and features yet to be announced.