Zend Studio vs PSPad
When comparing Zend Studio vs PSPad, the Slant community recommends Zend Studio for most people. In the question“What are the best IDEs or editors for PHP?” Zend Studio is ranked 15th while PSPad is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Zend Studio is:
Unused variables or namespace uses. Variables only defined orasigned but never used. A lot of warning and notices that allow you to have clean code.
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Pros
Pro Notices about unused code
Unused variables or namespace uses. Variables only defined orasigned but never used. A lot of warning and notices that allow you to have clean code.
Pro Tightly integrated with Zend Server
Pro Zend Framework integration
Pro Free
PSPad is completely free to download and use.
Pro Simple and small
PSPad is simple, small, and lightweight. It's also quite fast.
Pro Code highlighting for many languages
PSPad supports code highlighting for several languages.
Pro Portable version
Pro Column mode
Editing in column mode.
Pro Integrated HEX editor
Pro Accented words
In PSPad, the user can add accents to words.
Pro Integrated FTP client
Cons
Con Expensive
Con Used to be quite good, but left behind by PhpStorm in terms of functionality.
Used Zend Studio for many years, forking out lots of money to do so. Since Zend stopped offering Zend Server as a free edition, I switched to PhpStorm. The difference is amazing - PhpStorm is so much nicer to use, and has many more time-saving and code-improving features. For a start, PhpStorm knows all about Drupal coding standards, and Drupal as a content management framework. It even spots when you create a project that uses Drupal: two clicks later you are configured for Drupal coding style and you have automatic code completion for Drupal hook functions!
Con Javascript is broken in version 13.6
Con Windows only
It's only available for Windows.
Con No code folding
Does not support code folding.