Re: IDE for PHP?

Same like me, Editplus comes with Syntaxhighlighting (which is customable) and the standard html functions like forms integrated. For the rest works Dremaweaver fine, even WYSIWYG editors are really not the best... -- Cheers, Alex ICQ: 46858764 DynDNS: nodeejay.mine.nu Win2k SP3, Apache 2.0.44, PHP 4.3.1 as Apache Module with Zend Optimizer 2.1.0, MySQL 3.23.55MAX, stunnel 4.04 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.7 31 Dec 2002, Everybody is using M$Windows and everybody says its bullsh*** - so if its bullsh***, simply, don't use it. ----------------------------------------------- "Jon Haworth" <jon@laughing-buddha.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:MNEMKLKPBNBIDHIDMOJIKEELCCAA.jon@laughing-buddha.net... > Hi Dale, > > > What I was thinking was to design the first form > > (getinput.html) in MS FrntPg (for the design aspects), > > have the form tag call getinput.php, extract the > > info and store in a file. Does this sound like an > > adequate approach? > > Yes, that should work perfectly. Another common method is to use one big > script that detects whether data has been submitted, and processes it or > displays the form accordingly. > > > Is there an IDE for PHP that would help w/the > > design end of things? (Basically positioning > > text/lines etc.). Or should I continue to use > > FP to do the design of HTML, then just do the > > processing w/PHP? > > Personally I don't like WYSIWYG editors for web pages, so I tend to steer > clear of them and write all my PHP and HTML in a text editor (I use > Editplus - http://editplus.com/ - although there are many > decent ones). > > If you find yourself more productive with a WYSIWYG editor, you should look > into Dreamweaver MX (I think you can download a demo from macromedia.com). > It apparently has excellent support for PHP, I'll bet it writes cleaner > markup than Frontpage, and it's a good stepping stone towards other > Macromedia tools like Flash if you think you might go that way in the > future. > > Cheers > Jon >