Rapid PHP is the most complete all-in-one software for coding PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web development languages with tools for debugging, validating, reusing, navigating and formatting your code.

What's New

Radically improved search and replace - slim, dockable search windows, improved UI

  • Split editing of the same file
  • Updated Chrome preview version
  • Updated HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP language support and features
  • Address many of the suggestions from our customers accumulated over the last 3 years
  • Large number of new and rewritten features

New search and replace features

  • Compact, dockable search windows
  • Search windows can be docked or undocked
  • Easy switch between find and find in files
  • Recent searches and saved searches
  • Saved search editor
  • Improved regular expression support, now supports \n, \r, \t
  • Improved go to bookmark (more text in sight)
  • Goto anything now works also with spaces
  • Updated search results appearance, less clutter, more contrast
  • Everything looks great also in dark UI style

Improved user interface

  • Split editing of the same document in multiple tabs
  • Easy file tab arrangement in columns or rows
  • Code explorer now remembers opened branches when switching languages or refreshing
  • Search feature for snippet library

Improved text editor

  • Improved behavior with non-standard width chars (escape characters, Chinese characters etc.)
  • Updated word navigation (Ctrl + Left and Ctrl + Right)
  • Shift + scroll will now work horizontally as well
  • Horizontal scrolling with touchpad now supported
  • Newlines are no longer shown as hidden character by default

Improved FTP/SFTP/FTPS

  • File explorer menu now supports Upload / Reload for entire folders
  • Improved download / upload behavior - logical corresponding target folder selection
  • Move and duplicate features for remote files
  • FTP window GUI improvements
  • FTP panel now has current project's FTP outlined as separate item
  • Improved compatibility with latest SSH servers

Improved preview features

  • Chromium 70 integration provides fresh Chrome preview
  • External preview in Edge now possible
  • User-defined bookmarklets can now be added to the preview by advanced users (see documentation)
  • Accessibility Auditor bookmarklet added as a sample
  • Improved HTML and CSS support
  • Improved named color support for CSS checker
  • @page is now correctly supported in syntax highlighter
  • !important is now highlighted separately
  • Updated CSS syntax highlighter
  • Updated CSS definitions to include scrollbar customization properties and some other new properties
  • F1 language help now uses MDN reference for HTML

Improved JavaScript support

  • React and Vue.js support
  • Major JavaScript auto complete update
  • ES6 reserved words (e.g. static, private etc.) are now highlighted
  • JavaScript template literal support
  • Code explorer now supports let
  • JavaScript classes are now supported in code explorer and auto complete
  • Both node.js and ES6 requires/imports are supported>
  • Constants are now supported