DraftCode for PHP IDE1.14.4 - App Store

Develop and run PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS locally on your iPad or iPhone (or an Apple Silicon Mac), without requiring an internet connection.
Run Apps as complex as WordPress or phpMyAdmin right on your device.

Freely choose your workspace location on your device, either inside DraftCode, or in the folder of a Git Client like WorkingCopy, on iCloud or other services that offer selectable folder locations.

Access your PHP Web App from other Apps on your iPad while in Split Screen mode, for example Mobile Safari or Brave.

DraftCode includes the standard PHP stack including PHP extensions typically available on a server: MySQL, SQLite, PDO, Curl, OpenSSL, FTP, XML, JSON, SOAP, GD and more.

DraftCode can run different versions of PHP and you can switch between them:

- Includes PHP 7.3, PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2
- Available (via in-App Purchase): PHP 8.5

DraftCode Features:

- Execute PHP/JS/HTML/CSS without requiring an internet connection
- Run Apps as complex as WordPress on your device for offline development
- Support for selecting a custom workspace folder in supported other Apps (like Git clients) or iCloud
- Includes a Session Inspector showing state of current session variables
- Shows PHP errors
- PHP and JavaScript syntax colouring
- Internal keyboard support with coding accessory
- External keyboard support with additional keyboard shortcuts
- Multitasking and split-screen support on iPad
- Includes PHP packages: WordPress, phpMyAdmin, Composer and more
- File workspace including support to zip, unzip, copy, move or duplicate files or folders
- Code import/export from iCloud Drive, other Apps or iTunes file sharing
- Kiosk mode that runs you PHP code fullscreen
- Script mode to run PHP scripts without a web context or timeout
INCLUDED PHP PACKAGES

WORDPRESS 6.8
With just one tap you can run WordPress offline (using the included WordPress SQLite plugin) and develop themes and plugins for the popular platform.

PHPMYADMIN
Connect to EXTERNAL MySQL databases (MySQL is NOT included).

PHPLITEADMIN
Work with local SQLite databases.

COMPOSER
Use Composer v.2.1.12 to efficiently manage your dependencies. The package also includes an example project.

For more information and answers to frequently asked questions please visit DraftCode's website. (Please follow the "Developer Website" link below.)

Please note:
- Included packages might not yet support all PHP versions available (check their website)
- DraftCode's runtime currently does not support re-write rules
- A MySQL database is NOT included. (We recommend using SQLite when working completely offline.)
- A phpinfo() output of the current available runtime configurations is available on the DraftCode website, please follow the "Developer Website" link below.
- In-App purchase pricing can be reviewed on this App Store page under "Information" by tapping the triangle next to 'In-App Purchases"

Version History - Fixes an issue when launching DraftCode on macOS for the first time
- Improved runtime selection interface, now defaulting to PHP 8.2
- Other minor improvements 1.14.4 Aug 30 - Includes new Runtime for 8.5.8 (requires in-app purchase)
- Runtimes for PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2 are now available for free 1.14.3 Jul 29 - PHP 8.0 Runtime is now included for free
- Updated included Wordpress and its SQLite plugin
- General bugfixes and improvements 1.14.2 07/16/2025 Included Packages Update:

Updated included WordPress to v6.5 and SQLite plugin to v2.1.9 to avoid an issue where the automatic WordPress update during setup would make it incompatible with the included SQLite plugin. 1.14.1 04/21/2024 - New Runtimes for PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2 (require one-time in-App purchase)
- Source editor improvements

- Fixes an issue where the source editor could loose its position when interacting with other parts of the interface 1.14 04/04/2024 This version of DraftCode contains bugfixes.

If you like DraftCode, please leave a review in the App Store, it really helps. Thank you. 1.13.2 08/17/2023 - Bugfixes 1.13.1 05/19/2023 This version includes several major changes and improvements. We hope you like them.
If you like DraftCode and want to support it, please post a good review on the App Store.
If you experience any issues, please get in touch with DraftCode support.

NEW

- Updated icon
- Rewritten server component
- Now uses the modern rendering engine used in Safari today (fixing many website compatibility issues)
- PHP environment now available at http://127.0.0.1:8080 for other Apps on iPad (while DraftCode is running, for example in Split View together with another iOS browser).
- Runtime for PHP 8 updated to 8.0.28
- Changed default max_upload_filesize to 256M
- Changed default post_max_size to 256M
- WordPress updated to v6.1.1
IMPROVEMENTS

- SVG files are now editable as text
- External keyboard improvements, including additional keyboard shortcuts

BUGFIXES

- Issues when using on an Apple Silicon Mac
- Several other minor bugfixes and improvements 1.13 04/30/2023 - Fixes a layout issue on iPhone
- Improved workflow when creating new files 1.12.1 11/25/2022 - Added support for selecting custom workspace folder
- Bugfixes 1.12 11/17/2022 - PHP 7.3 including GD is now the included default
- Removed old PHP 5 and PHP 7.2 runtimes
- Updated Composer package to latest version

BUGFIXES
- Fixes OpenSSL certificate verification issues by updating included root certificates 1.11 11/22/2021 - New PHP 8.0.9 Runtime (requires In-App Purchase)

Updated included PHP packages to support PHP 8:
- WordPress (v5.8)(including SQLite plugin)
- phpMyAdmin (v4.7)
- phpSqliteAdmin (1.9.9 dev) 1.10 08/21/2021 Thank you for your support. If you like DraftCode, please leave a review on the App Store, it really helps!
If you can, please support DraftCode via the in App purchases too.

NEW
- New additional PHP 7.3 runtime available via in App purchase (same extensions than 7.2)
- Included WordPress package has been updated to v5.4

BUGFIXES
- Custom HTTP request headers now reflected correctly (this fixes problems with PHP relying on custom headers from AJAX requests, like the WordPress block editor)
- Fixes an issue with code error highlighting and PHP 7 1.9.5 04/21/2020 Thank you for your support. If you like DraftCode, please leave a review on the App Store, it really helps!
If you can, please make sure to get that PHP 7 runtime IAP too.
Hope you are all ok out there. Don't let that virus get you down!

New
* JavaScript errors and JavaScript console.log messages visible in session inspector
* Includes composer v1.8.4 as an installable package (requires PHP 7 runtime)

PHP Runtime Improvements
* PHP5 and PHP7 OpenSSL cert (path defined as openssl.cafile) is now accessible inside open_basedir
* PHP7 increased memory limit

Bugfixes
* Fixes UI issues when using dark mode
* Fixes an issue where PHP errors from previous session would not be cleared correctly 1.9.4 04/02/2020 New in 1.9.3:

- Fixes as issue with Kiosk mode

New in 1.9.2:

- Updated PHP 7 runtime (7.2.24), now also including calendar extension
- Settings now allow increased maximum allowed font size up to 30px

BUGFIXES
- Fixes issue where video or audio would not play back automatically
- Fixes issue where the onscreen keyboard could hide part of the source code view
- Fixes issue where HTTP_USER_AGENT would not contain the correct value 1.9.3 01/25/2020 - Updated PHP 7 runtime (7.2.24), now also including calendar extension
- Settings now allow increased maximum allowed font size up to 30px

BUGFIXES
- Fixes issue where video or audio would not play back automatically
- Fixes issue where the onscreen keyboard could hide part of the source code view
- Fixes issue where HTTP_USER_AGENT would not contain the correct value 1.9.2 01/21/2020 BUGFIXES
- Fixes an issue with video playback of local files using video tags 1.9.1 03/03/2019 New Features
- Execute a PHP file as a script (by swiping right on a file) without timeout or web context
- Run your PHP code fullscreen in "Kiosk mode"

Runtime
- PHP 7 updated to 7.2.12, added fileinfo extension
- PHP 5 and 7: Raised file upload limit to 100M

Bugfixes
- Finally fixed an issue that prevented ThinkPHP (and possibly other projects) from running correctly
- Fixed an issue with keyboard shortcuts
- Several other improvements and bug fixes

If you like DraftCode, please don't forget to leave a review in the AppStore. Thanks! 1.9 02/12/2019 Code editor bugfixes 1.8.1 09/12/2018 New:
- File and Folder workflows now available as swipe actions:
- Rename, share/export, zip, unzip
- New: Duplicate

- Code editor now supports syntax colouring for javascript and js files
- Improved support for importing text that is not UTF-8 encoded.
- Raw html output view supports syntax colouring

Bugfixes and improvements:
- General performance improvements
- In-App purchases
- File imports from other Apps 1.8 07/28/2018 Code editor bugfixes
- Fixing a rare crash
- Improving preserving indentation 1.7.6 04/17/2018 - PHP 7 now includes GD extension
- New keyboard accessory, now also supporting iPhones
- Editor improvements 1.7.5 04/09/2018 - New additional PHP v7.2.2 runtime (requires in-app purchase)
- Minor bugfixes 1.7 03/19/2018 - iPhone X support
- Syntax colouring improvements 1.6.8 03/01/2018 NEW
- DraftCode's workspace is now available in File Browser in iOS 11

IMPROVEMENTS
- Added support for (non standards conform) relative Location headers aka Location: some.php

BUGFIXES
- Fixes an issue with cookies generated in client space (javascript) not visible to PHP
- Fixes an issue with cookies generated in PHP not visible in client space (javascript)
- Fixes an issue with access to camera or photo library in preview browser crashing 1.6.7 11/05/2017