Now Use PHPanywhere To Code Directly From Your Browser
PHPanywhere is a new online service that’s changing the way people develop on the web. They enable users to develop and maintain their php/html projects online using any standard web browser.
This is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language, in other words it is an application that gives developers all the code editing capabilities they need to develop PHP applications online. It includes a real-time syntax code editor with support for all web formats and a powerful FTP editor.
Because it works in a browser you can start coding right away, no need for installing anything and best of all you can work from anywhere, all you need is an internet connection and a web browser and you’re ready to go.
You can develop and maintain multiple projects with ease using PHPanywhere, because as soon as you log in all your projects (FTP servers) are immediately accessible. PHPanywhere even remembers what files you were working on and reopens them as well.
Real-time syntax code editor
The real-time syntax code editor is really what PHPanywhere is all about, so here is a list of just some of the things it does:
- Syntax highlighting
- Smart indentation for each language
- Code folding
- Full internationalization
- Unlimited undo/redo (now handled on client (browser) side, no more waiting for server response)
- Unlimited tabs
- Find and replace feature (New Feature)
- Displays line numbers (New Feature)
- Code auto completion, snippets (New Feature)
- Displays line numbers (New Feature)
- Code indention (TAB key) (New Feature)
Projects (New Feature)
Create and use projects to group files you commonly use together, so you can easily open them next time you need to work on the project.
File permissions (New Feature)
Change your file and folder permissions using PHPanywhere’s ftp explorer.
Messages Window (New Feature)
Your every action is now logged in the window at bottom of the screen, so you can now easily track changes you made using PHPanywhere.
Skins (New Feature)
Choose from different skins to change the look and feel of PHPanywhere.
Welcome Screen (New Feature)
Besides giving you a nice and warm welcome 
, it also displays shortcuts to your most common commands, and recently opened files and projects.
Powerfull FTP explorer
This is a full-blown FTP explorer. You can add as many servers as you like, edit files, create/delete files or folders and you can even edit the permissions on folders. It will definitely satisfy all you FTP needs.
Work without restrictions
PHPanywhere doesn’t install anything on your computer, so you can use it without asking your IT administrator for permission. Also since it isn’t on your computer, it works even if your corporate firewall is blocking the FTP port.
Share your work
Because all your projects are on our servers you can easily allow others to work on your project, without duplicating you files. Also PHPanywhere enables real-time document collaboration (**) which makes it the ideal work environment.
PHPanywhere can be comfortably run on Opera 9+ and Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, Camino, Seamonkey,…) on any OS. Support for IE and Safari/Chrome coming soon.
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Greetings web developers – As a security officer and RHCE I must absolutely make sure that nobody uses this app. You’re giving the keys to the kingdom to someone you’ve never met.
Avoid this at all costs. This /will/ be exploited.
Oh great, so they can use your FTP username+password to check out your code, and if your database config is in your code, they can chech the database as well, maybe it contains credit card data. Yay for them!
Srsly, don’t! Ok?
I was looking for something like this. I made an account before reading the comments.
I guess if security is too much of an issue, you could use this for creating only short parts of your project so as not to give away any valuable information.
I know, at least, this will be useful for solving some ProjectEuler.net problems when I’m away from my main machine.
No way! Give me an open source piece of software that I can install on my own server. no way I’m letting you have access to my database and code.
I will applaud the concept, great idea and good intent on moving the programming arena into the cloud, but the security aspect is the biiiiig issue. If they could move (and assure that) security was in a local google gears repository or equivalent then this could be an option but it isn’t so I will keep my stuff on a usb key for now.
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The problem to make this app productive is that there is a large frame on the right with Ads in it. So the real screen area where you can edit your code is limited.
I prefer to use a file manager installed on my desktop with FTP capabilities (of course this won’t work if the FTP port is blocked). At least I can use my whole screen to edit code.
Just tried this out. Buggy as hell.
Also I was far too scared to put ftp details into this website. I will stick to notepad++
Hello all!
My name is Ivan Burazin and I am one of the founders of PHPanywhere.net.
As with many of first time users of PHPanywhere I can understand your security fears, but I must assure you that we have no intent of doing so,I mean we will be celebrating one year old this month and we have over 10,000 users, so we mean business.
Also you can remove the “Save Password” feature for your ftp server, so that nothing is saved on our servers.
Also I must ask you all security wise, is PHPanywhere any less secure than SVN or GIT hosting our even your email hosting on GMAIL?
Also I wrote a blog post about this last year, please check it out http://phpanywhere.net/blog/?p=35
Thank you Smashingapps for the post and thank you all who use the app.
Kind regards,
Ivan Burazin
Ivan,
Nice of you to comment about people’s security concerns, but the fact of the matter is that even if you “mean business”, and have a decent sized user base, a lot of people will still be hesitant to make use of PHPanywhere. I’m sure its a great help to many people, but I wouldn’t see myself ever using such a thing, even if we can remove the saved password from your server. This is because I prefer to limit the amount of potential security holes a site might have when working on it.
And I’d bet good money that gmail is much more secure than phpanywhere. 
Hi Ted,
Thank you for your reply, I do understand your concern and I do appreciate that some people will be hesitant to use PHPanywhere.
But as in all SaaS applications the first reactions are fear of security/privacy so I totally understand your viewpoint and can only say that I hope that one day we will be big enough (read secure enough) for you to try use out.
PHPanywhere doesn’t install anything on your computer, so you can use it without asking your IT administrator for permission. Also since it isn’t on your computer, it works even if your corporate firewall is blocking the FTP port.
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@pingo
Yes, but shouldn’t you be doing your job while at work (a corporate firewall indicates that you most likely are). *And* if php development is part of your job, then I don’t see why the IT administrators would have a problem giving you access to do your job.
All in all I like the concept, dislike the security risks involved, and think this should be a ‘released’ piece of software, be it commercial (sold) like other IDE’s or free (also like other IDE’s), maybe a comparable open source project could be spawned, I would be interested in participating (email me at ajmurray01 at _gmail_ dot _com_) maybe we could get something started, either way, should be something that could be installed on my own server and secured by me, not someone I don’t know.
(side note: hmmm, maybe I too should be getting back to work rather than replying to these comments).
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Why do so many people buy this painkiller from us? The answer is because it works, all the time! That’s what i want to say here.
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I’m a web developer and this seems like the biggest breach of security you can have developing websites. All it takes is a person to break into the connection and absolutely destroy your server.