Welcome

Thanks for trying SimpleEdit, the powerful opensource PHP-IDE.

If this is your first time using SimpleEdit please read the "Getting started" section. It'll help you to learn how to get the most out of SimpleEdit and introduce you to some of the advanced features that no other PHP-IDE offers.

Please remember, though, that this is an Alpha-Quality product. This means that Bugs are common and there's lots of missing features right now. Check out the "News"-section to stay informed.

If you don't like to view this page on every startup then you're free to disable it by simply unchecking the "Show On Startup" checkbox at the bottom of this editor view. You can then show it again from the "Tools" menu using "Show Welcome".

What's new?

It's been quite a while since the last release, so most likely you expect lots of changes, right? Sadly this isn't the case. There have been lots of changes, yes. Almost 20,000 lines of code have been added, but chances are high that there are only four new features that you'll notice. Most other stuff has happened behind the scenes and will allow us to offer much more advanced features in the next version. Nevertheless these four changes are really great.

For me the most important thing is that the QualityAgent finally works. This little tool makes it extremly simple for you to report bugs and suggest new features.

For you, as a user, the new FileSystem Browser might be the best thing. It isn't really new, but much better than the one in the old version as it now has a tree instead of a simple list. On Windows you can even use it to navigate through your network, quite cool, isn't it? However, please note that there are a couple of known bugs. For example if you create/delete a file/folder and find the hole tree blown up, don't panic. Just select the root-node and refresh the tree. Your filesystem has not been corrupted, we just blew up our internal filesystem tree.

Another feature is the thing you're looking at right now - the welcome screen! Not only does it feature a nice introduction to SimpleEdit, it also shows your last documents, file templates and News through RSS.

There's now also a simple way to change the keybindings. Check out: Tools -> Shortcut-Editor.

Other features include autocompletion for PHP (yes, we had that before, but this time you can use it on your own classes, methods and interfaces!), easier project navigation (press "control alt G" and enter the name of the class/interface you'd like to go to), easier file navigation (press "control F12" and be happy) and other improvements.