Free browser-based PHP IDE

http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/09/01/now-use-phpanywhere-to-code-directly-from-your-browser.html

by tsestrich • 17 years ago

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jacquesm2• 17 years ago

it looks like http://phpanywhere.net/ is down right now.

tsestrich• 17 years ago

yeah, i was hoping to try it out today, but i think it must have gotten brought down recently. I'll finally be able to sneak in some work on my pet project while I'm at real work, lol

profquail2• 17 years ago

This page seems to be loading (but I haven't tried signing in): http://labs.phpanywhere.net/

jv2222• 17 years ago

It's down for me too I think HN effect may have knocked it over.

shaunxcode• 17 years ago

It was on the front page of digg as well - and when I clicked the link from there an hour or so before the story was on here it was having trouble loading all the images etc. so I am sure hitting hn was just the cherry on top of their server meltdown.

profquail2• 17 years ago

This looks like a really cool app, but I'd rather see it released as something you could install on your own server, like phpMyAdmin. It looks like it runs from their website and accesses yours via FTP, which I'm not really that comfortable with.

skolor• 17 years ago

This is precisely how I feel. I would not be willing to FTP through someone else's site, no matter how convenient it was to use. On the other hand, I would be willing to pay a reasonable licensing fee (say, $20-30 a year, w/ updates, or $30-50 as a one time fee) and host it on my own servers.

As awesome as this is, I can't imagine the target audience (people who do web programming) be willing to put their credentials for their own sites into another site. I know I don't even trust my credentials for my web server on my own local machine.

Batsu• 17 years ago

I feel the exact same way about posting code into online pretty printers.

It's not that I'm putting sensitive information out there, it's just a strange kind of trust issue.

RyanMcGreal• 17 years ago

Neat concept, though as other commenters have pointed out there are some security issues.

On the plus side, I can't imagine it being that hard to add syntax highlighting for additional languages.

aaroniba• 17 years ago

We thought seriously about turning AppJet into this, before we decided EtherPad was a better business. We even built version 1 of a virtualized php-hosting backend. In the end, we just couldn't get our hearts into it because we liked programming in JavaScript so much better than PHP.

kingsley_20• 17 years ago

I seriously hearted appjet. And amen for javascript over PHP. Now, about releasing appjet as OSS? Maybe on AppEngine? :)

Free browser-based PHP IDE

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