Not your Gramma's PHP Editor

I got tired of heavyweight IDEs that need an entire node_modules forest just to render a textbox. And I really got tired of cloud editors that send every keystroke to who-knows-where. So I wrote DS PHP Edit.

It’s just PHP. Drop it in a webroot, serve it up, and it runs. No Composer install. No build pipelines. All the frontend assets (Ace, jQuery, etc.) are vendored directly in the repo.

Its MIT Licensed, which means it is open source, and nothing is hidden, and everything is free to play around and make it your own.

For the AI piece, it hooks into DeepSeek V4 (cool huh? cheap af). Paste your API key into a K.dat, pick your model (flash for the cheap-and-cheerful route, pro if you want the big guns), and you get fill-in-the-middle completions (code completion for the win). It reads both sides of your cursor, not just the left. There's also an assistant that can rewrite, explain, or surgically edit specific blocks.

Every third-party asset (the Ace editor and jQuery) is downloaded into assets/vendor/ and served locally. There are no external script tags, no CDN calls, and no telemetry. Combined with the strict 'self' CSP, the browser talks only to your own server. Third-party licenses are reproduced in LICENSE and alongside the vendored code.

I mean, I use this myself for many things, and it comes in handy for me, so being the weirdo that I am, I thought maybe everyone else would enjoy it to... for free, so here you go.

If you use it, drop a star, and open an issue if something’s janky, or hit me up on X (@g023dev).

Quick caveat (important): this is a local tool. Do not expose it to the internet. The whole point of the Preview is executing arbitrary PHP – that's remote code execution by design (I mean its executing PHP, so ya there is that). Keep it bound to localhost or a trusted LAN (this is meant for you, not the entire internet). The CSP and CSRF tokens are extra belts, not a replacement for network isolation.

Much love from the cold wasteland that is Canada,

g023