PHP General questions

healinguy

Hi,

I am very new to PHP script & MySQL database programming. As I am trying to explore PHP Script, I had couple of questions to this forum:

Is there free PHP Front software to develop the pages using GUI such as Visual Basic? Could you please provide name of this software if it is available?
Is it possible to comiple the PHP scripts and create .dll and .exe?

I would really appreciate your response.

Thanks in advance.
Guy

traq

Some WYSIWYG web editors (dreamweaver, expressionweb, etc.) "feature" php programming abilities - but I would avoid them. In my experience, they usually don't work very well in any but the simplest situations.

The very best way to write PHP programs is with a plain text editor.

PHP is interpreted, not compiled. The program is run directly from the source code.

bradgrafelman

healinguy;11001820 wrote:
1. Is there free PHP Front software to develop the pages using GUI such as Visual Basic?

No, because it wouldn't make sense for such a thing to exist. PHP is a server-side programming language... there is no graphical component to it. (This is, of course, assuming we're talking about web development.. if you're using PHP as a glorified scripting language, sure, there are things like PHP-GTK... but if that's the case, I'd have to wonder if you're using the right language for the right job).

healinguy;11001820 wrote:
2. Is it possible to comiple the PHP scripts and create .dll and .exe?

Yes, but at that point why use PHP? Seems like you'd be much better off using something like C or C++.

spufi

traq;11001822 wrote:
The very best way to write PHP programs is with a PHP based IDE.

Fixed. The PHP based version of Eclipse is my pick.

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-php-developers/heliosr

traq

spufi;11001844 wrote:
Fixed. The PHP based version of Eclipse is my pick.

"Fixed"? I didn't mean to write "IDE." I'm glad you like Eclipse. 🙂

Derokorian

You really use a plain text editor? You don't use one with highlighting and/or auto-complete functionality?

spufi

traq;11001863 wrote:
"Fixed"? I didn't mean to write "IDE."

On other forums it's typical to quote somebody and change what the person said to say what you would have said and mention you fixed it. It might have helped if I added a smiley.

Weedpacket

spufi wrote:
Fixed. The Eclipse-based PHP editor is my pick.

Fixed🙂