For the last few months I have been following progress on the development of new NetBeans with PHP support. And, few days ago final NetBeans IDE 6.5 for PHP has been released.

From NetBeans official website you can choose download you need. You can download PHP only NetBeans (24MB) or you can choose full NetBeans (250MB) that includes editors for Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++ with Apache Tomcat and GlassFish servers. You can choose Windows, Linux, Sparc or MacOS versions.

If you are using Windows as I am, to run NetBeans you need any MS Windows XP (including x64 edition), MS Windows Vista or any MS Windows Server. You also need latest Java RunTime installed. I have tested NetBeans 6.5 with both 32bit and 64bit (with both 32bit and 64bit JRE) Windows XP, and it works without a problem.

I will describe the process of using NetBeans for developing for WordPress, and also some interesting features this IDE has to offer.

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