1.3. Choosing a Development Kit
Your development machine is now running all the necessary programs for programming with PHP. The next step is to decide how you're going to write your scripts. PHP scripts are text-based, so you have myriad options, ranging from the simple Notepad.exe and text-edit programs to highly specialized software development kits (SDKs) and integrated development environments (IDEs).
1.3.1. Benefiting from SDKs and IDEs
There's nothing wrong with coding in a plain text editor, but using an SDK and/or IDE for development can bring you many benefits, including:
Syntax highlighting: This is the ability to recognize certain words in a programming language, such as variables, control structures, and various other special text. ...
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