[Review] Codelobster PHP Edition Free Download and IDE Features

Are you looking for a free IDE for your website or web application development?

There are many IDEs available in the IT market today.

Most of the common editors have all those basic features like creating an environment for the project, editing code and highlighting all the basic syntax.

For web development, you need some advanced features as website development is not so easy. You have to develop front end (view), back end and then coupling between them.

I tried various IDEs for developing my web application projects.

I am introducing you with one of such amazing IDE that has impressed me with lots of features and ease in the development, called CodeLobster IDE.

At the end of this post, you will also find Codelobster PHP edition free download.

Here is my complete review using CodeLobster IDE.

Features of CodeLobster PHP Edition IDE

What are the features included in CodeLobster IDE?

1. Auto-completion feature

Being a developer, you will always find yourself on deadline. Auto-completion feature will speed up your development activities. You don’t need to mesmerize every syntax or the name of the variable you have declared earlier.

Using the auto-completion feature also eliminates lots for syntactic errors and saves your time.

2. Highlighting Paranethsis

Every block of code in programming like PHP enclosed inside the opening and closing parenthesis. Even if you miss a single parenthesis, it can give you a nightmare playing hide and seek.

CodeLobster IDE highlights all the matching parathesis so you can not miss place any parenthesis in your program.

3. Multiple Languages Support

This IDE supports 17 languages like English, German, Spanish, Russian, French, and others. If you or your team members are not much familiar with English, you can opt for natively spoken language. It makes development easier.

4. Multiple OS Support

Every developer in your team might have different types of the OS they feel comfortable with. This IDE can be installed on almost all the popular OS like Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, different flavors of Linux OS (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian), Mac OS, etc.

Advanced Features of Professional CodeLobster IDE

Some of the Advances features comes with the professional version of CodeLobster IDE are as below.

5. Remote Development

You can work on the project where the project code is hosted on the remote server. You can edit the selected files, make the changes and then sync back to the server files.

This feature will assist you to work on your live website.

6. JavaScript Library Support

There are lots of JavaScript libraries you need or developing a web application. Some of the libraries that supported by this IDEs are as jQuery, Node.js, AngularJS, BackboneJS, VueJS, and MeteorJS. Isn’t it so easy?

7. Extension for PHP Framework

There are lots of PHP frameworks extension easily available with this IDE such as CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Phalcon, Smarty, Symfony, Twig and Yii plug-ins.

8. Plugin for CMS

Do you need a Content Management System (CMS) like a blog?

With this IDE, you can easily install and activate the plugins for popular CMS like WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Joomla.

9. Bootstrap Support

Most of the web applications are developed using Bootstrap. CodeLobster IDE has special Bootstrap plugin.

Codelobster PHP edition free download and install

You can download it from its official website CodeLobster.com. They provide different versions for different OS.

It comes with both- free and professional versions. Check out all the features provided by both the versions and choose one based on your requirements.

They even have the active support of you have any query. If you have any question to ask about this IDE or review, please comment below.

Hope this will make your web develope go easy.

Aniruddha Chaudhari

I am a Python enthusiast who loves Linux and Vim. I hold a Master of Computer Science degree from NIT Trichy and have 10 years of experience in the IT industry, focusing on the Software Development Lifecycle from Requirements Gathering, Design, Development to Deployment. I have worked at IBM, Ericsson, and NetApp, and I share my knowledge on CSEstack.org.