PHP software

Anon

Is there an application/software that will let you develop web pages in PHP?

Cheers

Lee

Anon

www.soysal.com

yelvington

Most people write code with a text editor (perhaps with automatic colorizing) and test with a Web browser and server. What is it that you want to do that can't be done with that combination?

Anon

Thanks

Anon

There is not anything in perticular I would like to do at the moment. I'm new to PHP and only just finished the first tutorial.

I usually use a text editor for my html and cgi but I was just being a bit lazy.

I once used an application that let me write the forms I wanted and then automatically created a cgi scrpt for them.
This was the sort of thing I was looking for. Something that is easy and straight forward to use.

yelvington

I recall seeing something like that last week. The Web site of the manufacturer was so badly implemented that I left immediately.

The problem with programs like that is twofold:

Most tools like that create very bad code. Bad HTML, bad PHP (or whatever other language might be implemented). Look at the abominable garbage that comes out of tools like FrontPage.
You don't learn. If you go through school having somebody else do your homework, you'll be forever ignorant. The only way to learn to write good code and develop good Web sites is to do the work.

I don't want to overstate the case; there are tools that can be helpful. Any decent HTML editor should colorize the code to help you spot errors. Many of them understand PHP syntax and will automatically colorize that. A tool such as Quanta, for Linux, is useful in that it produces an object-tree view of an HTML document and can help you spot dumb nesting errors. A good HTML checker is always useful.

Anon

Steve,

Thanks for the reply's

I do try to use notepade whenever I can. I never use frontpage as I dont like the way it alters the code.

I think homesite is one of the best html editors out there.

I will continue to learn PHP, I did end up not using the cgi program again due to incorrect code.

Lee

sepodati

Zend recently released an IDE for developing PHP. It tracks variables and debugs your scripts. Check it out on their website. I think it's kind of pricey, though, but it's coming right from the source...

---John Holmes...