ICEcoder vs NuSphere PhpED

ICEcoder is a browser-based code editor for building, testing, and maintaining websites. It runs online or offline and is accessed through a modern browser on an internet-enabled computer. Editing tools include live editing, multiple selections, code assist, code folding, bracket matching, and automatic indentation. Its find-and-replace builder searches current or open documents, files, and filenames using plain text or regular expressions. ICEcoder requires an Apache or similar web server and PHP 7.0 or newer. The manual lists Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Internet Explorer 11 or newer. Downloads are offered through Git, Docker, Composer, Bash, ZIP, and EXE formats. Built-in tools include terminal, database, and Git management. Users can install plugins or create custom ones with web languages, though plugin installation requires ZipArchive enabled on the server. It supports multiple users, but provides no security isolation between them and is intended for trusted developer teams. The IDE framework is MIT licensed; some components have separate licenses. Its free plan costs nothing.

NuSphere PhpED is an integrated development environment for PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Smarty, XHTML, and other languages on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The editor supports PHP 5.3–8.4 with syntax highlighting, code folding, Unicode editing, search, and a diff viewer. Its debugger handles local and remote sessions, breakpoints, call stacks, variables, and parallel debugging. Performance Explorer offers sampling-based timeline, call-tree, flame-graph, and stack-chart views, alongside line-level profiling. Deployment supports FTP, FTPS, SSH/SFTP, WebDAV, and Windows Share. The database client works with SQLite, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and InterBase. Integrations include PHPUnit, jQuery, extJS, Tortoise SVN, Tortoise CVS, PHP Documentor, HTML Tidy, Code Formatter, HTML Validator, and a CVS client. NuSphere offers a free, fully functional 14-day PhpED 23.0 trial. Personal costs $81, paid once, Professional $129, paid once, and Team4 $387, paid once for four licenses. Professional includes one year of support and major-version upgrades.