Tulip is an IDE for PHP development. Tulip - A PHP-GTK based Code editor, a tool for coding PHP scripts, written using PHP as base language and Gtk as user interface. Tulip has features that make it a good choice to develop free software in a co-operative environment. Tulip has an interface that allows you to set up your projects, and deal with them in a distinct way through an intuitive file explorer tree.

Tulip has CVS controls, making it possible to create, update and delete remote files seamlessly from a CVS server, allowing the programmer to manage several big projects with individual organization for each project. Tulip has also controls that lock work files, enhancing security in a networked development environment, avoiding another people to mistakingly change files you are working on.

Regarding sintax, Tulip has auto-completion, sintax-highlighting and sintax hints, features provided thorugh GtkScintilla library and configuration files containing all the sintax rules. Besides everything, Tulip has all popular features present in any other popular text editors, such as copy, cut, paste, search, go to, fast work file exchange, and others.

Tulip brings an embedded Database navigator, in wich you may access your Database (Mysql or Postgres), make queries, edit or delete your records.