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Interview with the Team Behind PHPanywhere

Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by srikanth in Miscellaneous

Recently we reviewed PHPanywhere, which is a free web based PHP IDE that enables you to develop and maintain your PHP applications online. I got an opportunity to get in touch with the team behind PHPanywhere to answer a few questions about this intriguing application.

Take a look at the interview after the break.

Briefly About the PHPanywhere.net, Before the Q & A!

PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language, in other words it is an application that gives developers all the code editing capabilities they need to develop PHP applications online. It includes a real-time syntax code editor with support for all web formats and a powerful FTP editor.

The Team Behind PHPanywhere

Ivan Burazin is an IT entrepreneur and along with him is his colleague Vedran Jukic who is a Developer. Ivan and Vedran who are based on Split, Croatia launched PHPanywhere.net in September 2008.

Q&A

What is the motivation behind building PHPanywhere?

Well it all started in March 2008 while Vedran was working on a lot of freelance web projects and he found the need to work while away from his office. And so was born the idea behind PHPanywhere – Edit your web sites/applications while away from your computer. Vedran with that thought created the first version for his personal use.

Only later did Vedran bring me on board as the marketing manager and we then offered a new cleaned up version of PHPanywhere to the public, with the goal of becoming the de-facto standard for online web editing.

How is PHPanywhere better compared to other competitive web based code editors?

In our view it’s the best. It’s lightweight, easy to use, easy to learn, and fast. You can literally start coding in no time – just sign up, type in your ftp credentials and start code.

While other editors try to copy your desktop IDE in the browser we have designed an editor that is specifically made for the browser, evading the implementation of complicated features that will slow down or complicate your development online. Further more a lot of others have done what they thought was best whereas PHPanywhere has evolved in the directions that our community (forum, blog, twitter) has guided us.

Because of this I really do believe that we are on our way to become, as I said before the de-facto standard for online editing.

What all have you done in development for building this web application?

We basically did everything from scratch. From planing, coding to designing, except some publicly available libraries it’s more or less its all us.

Are there any other interesting projects you are working on?

Yes of course we have some ideas, but we are currently committed to PHPanywhere; adding new features, getting more users and focusing on making your life easier (in coding at least).

The LosInTechnology Team thanks Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic for their valuable time and sharing their thoughts about PHPanywhere, online PHP editor.

** In the image is Vedran Jukic to the left and Ivan Burazin on the right.

by Srikanth AD from Techonaut. Contact him by email at adsrikanth[at]gmail[dot]com

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