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Can any one recommend a good all-in-one web development tool for Windows.

Something on par with Coda, which is only available for Mac OS X?

mauris
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    A Mac? :-) No, I haven't seen anything as comprehensive and well designed on the Windows end. – ceejayoz May 15 '09 at 18:13
  • ive used coda on the mac and love it. ive been using editplus for my pc because of the ftp integration. while editplus is great ... after using coda i had the same question as you. im now using aptana studio but it still doesn't compare. one thing i dislike about aptana is to get php support, you need to install a plug-in. also the ftp tree on the left has a hard time staying synced. every time i make a new file it refreshes and i have to re-navigate the tree. – Justin Bull Feb 26 '10 at 23:16
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    deceze and Robert Harvey can eat a fat one. This is a great question... why ever close it, maybe someday a pc program will come along that is as good as coda? Are you guys just jealous? – pathfinder Feb 25 '13 at 00:43
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    I'm using WebMaxtrix which has an editor, sql manager, and deployment support like coda and since it also functions as your web server it is actually a really great alternative. It even has some cool plugins like an iphone or ipad simulator. – Eric Sep 18 '13 at 09:36
  • @JustinBull, you should check out phpstorm, it's a fantastic program for php and handles css and html very well, it's no coda but it's not trying to be, the thing I love Coda for is the speed, not only the GUI but the general logical design coupled with the FTP which is so quick I also like the live CSS editing. However, i'm interested to see how fast the live edit is in php storm. – gcoulby May 19 '14 at 13:35

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I have not used Coda by myself, but believe that whatever it has, you can find in Sublime Text 2 as well, check it out. For remote files access, you can use an utility like ExpanDrive that mounts remote drive as local disk.

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I love Komodo Edit. I recommend that you try it.

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I Tried NotePad++ And it is in fact very cool, However, it crashes from time to time and it can delete your work! :O, sadly i haven't found anything like CODA for the PC so i'm staying with the mac

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i think you can use notepad++ with ftp_synchronize plug-in so you can remotely edit files on server ;)

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As far as I can tell, nothing gets close to Coda on mac. It's pretty sad.

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I love Coda and use it professionally every day. However, I'm going to check out Aptana Studio and Komodo IDE on the PC---they both look like they could be very good.

Note that Coda is not free (download, $99), so the answer presumably shouldn't be limited to free PC software in order to compare apples to apples (pun intended).

Cheers!

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I used PHPed myself, the best for me

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I've looked and NetBeans 7.x is about as close as I've found. Coda is much more than an editor...it does Subversion, has an excellent built-in CSS editor, and allows really elegant local development and publish-to-host workflow. Even NetBeans is only local or remote, but can't deal with both in one project. However, NetBeans' MySQL integration is very handy.

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I use KomodoEdit and it does not even compare to Coda. Coding on a Mac is a lot different as you can have a built in terminal. A windows equivalent would have to have a plugin for putty or something similar.

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Isn't Coda just a text editor? For Windows there is notepad++.

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