As an IDE, NetBeans supports a wide range of features to boost your daily PHP development. It includes the editor, debugger, profiler, version control, and other collaborative features. The base IDE provides the following interesting features:
Quick search: NetBeans provides you with a searching facility throughout the IDE, such as search within files, types, symbols, menu actions, options, help and open projects, Press Ctrl+I to focus on the search box. In the search results list, you will find the typed search term highlighted among the resultant items:
Plugin manager: From Tools | Plugins, you will have the plugin manager from where you can add, remove, or update features. Also, many interesting third-party plugins are available from the plugin portal. Note that from the installed plugin's list, you can deactivate or uninstall plugins (CVS, Mercurial, and so on), which are not of your concern right now, but you may do that to free some...