Dev-PHP & NightTrain

Pierre Fauconnier — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:32:05 -0000

I found some "Nightrain binaries" here:
https://download.cnet.com/php-nightrain/3000-10248_4-76169308.html

As far as I understand, Nightrain is not a compiler, it is only a PHP launcher.

Dev-PHP embeds a small webserver (by default http://localhost:8887) and is also able to launch a PHP engine
(see https://www.php.net/downloads.php
or older versions
https://www.php.net/releases/ )
Then enter the full pathname of the selected PHP engine into menu "Options", for exemple
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Dev-PHP2..\PHP.737\php-cgi.exe"

But I must admit I prefer to use a true virtual machine (virtualbox hosting a debian server {Apache2, FPM + PHP engine, MariaDB, Subversion server, SFTP server, etc } )

For reference: there is also PHP-GTK (https://gtk.php.net/download.php) no change for at least 10 years.

Dev-PHP & NightTrain

Pierre Fauconnier — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:56:55 -0000

Okay. I guess you’re talking about that nightrain
https://github.com/kjellberg/nightrain
I will try although it is a bit old - no update for 12 years... Could be quite difficult to integrate into "devphp"... without guarantee.
In case... could you be so kind as to submit a feature request?

Best regards

Dev-PHP & NightTrain

Mark Manning — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:31:53 -0000

Ok. First - I think I might be able to do this without asking for a change but I thought I'd ask anyway. :-)

Has there been any thought to making this development program run any code against NightTrain. The standalone compiler which will compile a PHP script so it can run on any OS. NightTrain is one of those programs that puts a browser, which runs HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP, together so you get a working program. Since Dev-PHP is a great editor - I thought - why not make it make standalone programs too. :-)

Also - I'm just now downloading Dev-PHP because of all of the reviews. I'm a VIM type person but like to try new tools. :-)

Anyway - just a thought. :-)

Directory Search Missing (2.6.0.357)

Steve — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:12:13 -0000

Hi Pierre,

With the file menu "pinned" on the left I still don't get a "Search regexp in directory" option as in the past.

Also, CTRL-F10 syntax check no longer pops the results window up automatically.

Directory Search Missing (2.6.0.357)

Pierre Fauconnier — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:28:47 -0000

Maybe this feature (directory search) could be hidden?
Menu "View/Files" or Icon "View" with a dropdown list, check "Files".
This was previously a tabsheet, now it's window (docked, undocked, pinned, tabbed, ...)

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