Re: Development Tools

I have been using UltraDev for the last year with my ASP code and it is great. The best I have seen let for ASP. But UltraDev with PHP is mainly just a fancy Notepad. But it sounds like they did a good job with MX/PHP. Also if MX work the same way they did UltraDev you can edit the code it writes for you. Example your question about customizing your MySQL error "or die(mysql_error())". This is build by script installed on your machine and are editable. For you can find the MySQL script and change "or die(mysql_error())" too what you want. You can do a search on macromedia's site on how. I have never did let, but read about it in a book on Ultrradev once. Thanks for you input, Mark. _________________________________________ Mark McCulligh, Application Developer / Analyst Sykes Canada Corporation www.SykesCanada.com (888)225-6824 ex. 3262 mmcculli@SykesCanada.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Vande More" <dvm@gwtr.com> To: "Mark McCulligh" <mmcculli@sykescanada.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Development Tools > Mark, > > I have been developing with PHP for 1 year now, and about 1 month ago got DMX, I have to say that I spend much much less time on building forms and little repetitive work, and more on building applications. I would have to say that DMX increased my productivity by at least 5 times.(I suck at building forms because I spend to much time perfecting them) > There is an initial learning curve, because DMX does some things different from what I had known, and some weird behaviors at times, and it certainly cannot be your entire application builder but I can safely say that I love it. > Do not attempt to work with it if you do not have a fundamental understanding of PHP, because it has some weird quirks that I were hard to pinpoint for myself. > But for building dynamic drop down lists, and recordsets, and update pages, it is great. > I wish they had built in some kind of form checker where you could say, "check this field because it is a date" and "check this field when submitted because it is required" > I also wish you could customize your mysql error messages, instead every one of them ends in "or die(mysql_error())" > Maybe they do have these, and I have not yet found them, so forgive me if my statements are incorrect.( and help me cause I'd love them!) > Again, it won't do user error checking, and when forms get complicated you have to do some manual editing, and the errors are generic. > But it is certainly worth that money. > > Thanks > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark McCulligh [mailto:mmcculli@sykescanada.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:43 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Development Tools > > > I am looking for a good Development tool to write my PHP in and was > wondering what people are using out there. > > I have been looking at Dreamweaver MX, Zend Studio 2.5 and phpEdit. > I know UltraDev 4 well with ASP, but the new MX now supports PHP. This > MX/PHP any good? Zend looks good with the integrated documentation and > debugging tools. > > Thanks, Mark. > _________________________________________ > Mark McCulligh, Application Developer / Analyst > Sykes Canada Corporation www.SykesCanada.com > (888)225-6824 ex. 3262 > mmcculli@SykesCanada.com > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >