Re: php vs cold fusion

Hi! How did you php syntax highlighting for php file in msdev? I've VC++ not InterDev. Does this feature ship with InterDev ? Thks, Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samantha Savvakis" <samantha@cfs.net.au> To: "Jason Murray" <Jason.Murray@melbourneit.com.au>; "'Maxim Maletsky'" <maxim.maletsky@japaninc.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:55 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] php vs cold fusion > > An IDE is not an editor that does syntax highlighting. It's a much > > more tightly integrated development environment more like Delphi or > > JBuilder. It's not Notepad on steroids. > > I agree about the IDE part. Just because you can use some little editor that > does some syntax highlighting for you, doesn't make it great and doesn't > make it an IDE. > > I use Visual Studio for most of my development. I am a C++ programmer and by > choice, I use VC++. I'm sorry, but "vi" doesn't cut it for me when writing > C++ code. I do use vi at times, but I much prefer an IDE. I have got an IDE > under X-windows on SCO called SNIFF, but when you compare that to VC++, VC++ > wins hands down. All my code runs under Unix, so I always write > non-specific, portable code. Just because I use VC++ doesn't mean I can't > write plain C++ code. > > Now, when it comes to web development, I use Visual Interdev. I used it at a > previous work where we did ASP pages and VB development. It worked well for > ASP as it has a debugger included. Now for my PHP pages, I can't debug the > PHP pages, so it's only providing some syntax highlighting for me for > general html functions, not php stuff. > > That's my 2c and it's MY opinion, so it's not right or wrong. Just what I > think. > > Sam > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >