下面介绍的是drupal的开发工具，没有完全翻译，翻译成中文的都是我觉得比较重要的地方。我个人比较青睐使用phped，加上firefox结合firebug。基本上就可以满足需要了

浏览器工具

• Microsoft Internet Explorer (windows自带的.)
  • Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
  • Firebug Lite 这个和firefxo尚的firebug上才不多，不过比较简单不太好用
  • Multiple Internet Explorer versions 这个没用过
  • Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image,微软提供的测试多个浏览器版本，windows7也可以用虚拟机装过xp测试ie6
  • IETester强烈推荐，这个很好用，可以测试多个ie版本
  • 如果你使用非windows得系统想使用ie:
    • http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/ - for OS/X
    • http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page - for Linux
    • http://wddb.wine-doors.org/node/3 - for WINE on Linux
• Mozilla Firefox (火狐，web开发的扩张最多.)
  • Web Developer Extension - 这个是个多功能的插件，可以编辑css，禁用css,js等等
  • FireFTP - firefox的ftp插件.
  • Firebug - 这个是必备的开发工具，调试网页必不可少
    • YSlow - 这个是用来测试页面大小，速度和性能，很详细
    • Page Speed - 和yslow差不多
    • 也有firebug的drupal模块 Drupal for Firebug .
  • How to setup a Firefox quick search for the Drupal API
  • IE Tab Firefox extension 可以让你在firefox里使用ie
• Opera
  • Firebug Lite 类似firebug
• Safari
  • Firebug Lite
• Google Chrome 现在chrome也有很多web开发方面的扩张，这里不做介绍了

编辑器

这里介绍一些编辑器，编辑器的争端太多，我比较建议使用pspad.

• Emacs 这个比较复杂，在使用ide的情况下没有必要使用这么复杂的工具
• VIM 同上

其他编辑器

• BBEdit (Commercial. Proprietary. Mac only.)
• Bluefish Editor (Free. Open Source. POSIX > Linux. Mac. Windows. Fast, lean multi syntax WYSIWYN editor with a focus on HTML/CSS/Javascript - GTK+ based). The Windows version can be found at http://code.google.com/p/bluefish-win/
• Dreamweaver (Commercial. Proprietary. Mac and Windows.) - A WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, XSL/T editor, and there's a free Drupal API extension for Dreamweaver.
• gPHPEdit (Free. Open source. Runs on Linux)
• jEdit (Free. Open source. Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows and others. Java based.)
• Komodo Edit (Free. Open source. Runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Configuration guideavailable.)
• Notepad++ (Free. Open Source. Windows only.) - A light-weight notepad replacement with tabbing and syntax highlighting.
• Smultron (Free. Open Source. Mac only.)
• TextMate (Commercial. Proprietary. Mac only although a Windows clone exists) - A couple of Drupal specific bundles are available, the PHP Drupal bundle which has the most features and another by Steven Wittens which allows tab completion of function signatures - both can exist without conflict. A lot of the power of TextMate is in its bundle system and it has built-in support for diff which speeds up the rolling and applying of patches and many more.
• TextWrangler (Free. Proprietary. Mac only.) -- Lets you read and save via FTP/SFTP, and supports grep and Show Changes (diff).
• Coda (Proprietary. Mac only.) - Editor for web pages (HTML, CSS) with preview and FTP capabilities; has a Drupal plugin.

集成开发环境 (IDE)

集成开发环境是最主要的工具，免费的推荐eclipse和netbean，个人比较推荐phped，虽然很多人使用zendstudio

• Eclipse (是著名的跨平台的自由集成开发环境（IDE）。最初主要用来Java语言开发，但是目前亦有人通过插件使其作为C++、Python、PHP等其他语言的开发工具。

  下面是eclipse的php插件:

  • PHP Development Tools (PDT) 这个是eclipse官方的.
  • PHP Development Tools (PDT) 这个是zend提供的.
  • • How to install Eclipse and configure it for Drupal.
    • Read details of how to install and configure Eclipse for Drupal.
    • Instructions for setting up Eclipse Ganymede on 64-bit Ubuntu
    • 这是一个集成的安装包 Easy Eclipse PHP distibution 里面已经包含了svn等插件
• Aptana (这个是基于eclipse，可以作为eclipse的插件进行安装，有sftp等功能，主要侧重于web开发).
• Netbeans 这个是和eclipse齐名的开发工具，功能上要比eclipse弱。
• Bluefish Editor (Free. Open Source. Linux. Mac. Fast Lean multi syntax WYSIWYN editor - GTK+ based). A lightweight, fast, multi-syntax IDE that supports projects, multiple documents, ftp/webDAV/sftp/http/https/samba, user custom integration with many programs like make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy, javac, more..., multi-language translations, etc. Just an awesome text editor on steroids.
• Quanta Plus (Free. Open Source. Linux - Part of the KDE environment).
• Geany (Free. Open Source. POSIX > GTk+. Linux. Mac. Windows. Fast lean multi syntax - GTK+ based).
• Komodo IDE (Commercial. Proprietary. Linux, Mac and Windows.) Drupal Configuration notes available and Module building extension with node and user code intelligence
• Zend Studio (Commercial. Proprietary. Linux, Mac and others. Java based.)
• PhpEd (Commercial. Proprietary. Windows, Linux.)
• CodeLobster (Shareware. Has a Drupal plugin. Appears to be Windows only.)
• Xcode (Commercial, free with Mac OS X. Mac only.) Here are instructions on setting up Xcode to work with Drupal.
• PhpStorm (Commercial. Proprietry. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. Java Based.) Code hinting, X-Debug.

SQL & Database tools

There is software that can aid your SQL and database needs with features ranging from queries to administration.

• phpMyAdmin - Industry-standard PHP tool for administering a MySQL database, included in most shared hosting packages (if not, find a different host!). For local database installations you could try phpminiadmin which is an order of magnitude faster than phpMyAdmin, but has fewer features.
• pgadmin3 (Free. Windows/Linux/Mac PostgreSQL). Industry-standard for administering a PostgreSQL database, the SQL99 reference database. Runs from your desktop, SSL aware, no need to install anything on your server. The application also includes a syntax highlighting SQL editor, a server-side script editor, an SQL/batch/shell job scheduling agent, support for the Slony-I replication engine and much more.
• MySQL GUI Tools Bundle (Free. Windows/Mac/Linux. Source available. MySQL only.) - GUI software bundle contains MySQL Administrator, MySQL Query Browser, and MySQL Migration Toolkit.
• FlySpeed SQL Query (Free. Windows. MySQL/PostgreSQL) -- Builds queries without needing deep knowledge of SQL syntax and performs data manipulations such as export and reporting.
• Navicat (Free & Commercial. Windows, Linux, Mac. Versions for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL.)
• Sequel Pro (Free. Mac. MySQL)
• SQLyog (Free Community Edition, Enterprise Edition. Windows. MySQL)
• HeidiSQL (Free & Open Source. Windows. MySQL only.)

Other Tools

• PuTTY (Free. Windows only.) - An SSH and telnet client.
• WinSCP - 著名的sftp工具.
• 7 Zip (Free. Open Source. Windows is the primary platform, with ports listed on thedownload page.) - Extracts archived and compacted files (such as tarballs).
• Cygwin (Free. Open Source. Windows only.) - Allows Windows users to use a Unix like shell. This is particularly useful for interfacing with git and patching files; read more.
• Filezilla (Free. Open Source. Windows, Mac, and Linux.) - Graphical FTP client
• IE Net Renderer - Check your site on IE 6 & 7 without Windows
• UnxUtils (Free. Open Source. Windows only.) - a lightweight option for adding some Unix command line utilities such as patch and grep to Windows, for those not wishing to download Cygwin.
• Drupal Module Builder Gem (Free, runs on Ruby).
• Realtime CSS Viewer Gem (Free, runs on Ruby) - This is a CSS viewer that monitors your changes as you edit in any text editor.This link does not work anymore

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