Dreamweaver 8 and PHP
How well does dw 8 support PHP? I've read places that it is supposed to be great for CSS, and also have support for PHP and coldfusion.
Does it make it that coding (for time) by hand would be a bad idea? Does it have horrible syntax? Would it be better to just code it by hand? Of course... to *learn* the code it's best to do so by hand. But, surviving int he workplace you don't *just* need quality, you need to get results quick. How well does DW 8 help with this on PHP?
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EarlDaniels posted this at 15:15 — 19th October 2005.
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DW 7 (MX 2004) is still one of the better PHP editors available.
How do you want to code if not "by hand"? DW code snippets are somewhat OK, but the time to integrate and troubleshoot are often not faster than writing new code.
In terms of overall development costs, PHP is more cost effective than most other solutions. Having good tools is always important, but no tool, no matter how much improved from the previous version, can overcome unreasonable development time/cost estimates.
tallon posted this at 20:11 — 19th October 2005.
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Hmm. DW 7? Does this apply to DW 8 as well? Or is something special about 7? And what makes dw (in general) a good PHP editor?
The whole "by hand" thing was refering to using code snippets and whatever php functionality that DW has to try and increase productivity while keeping quality as high as possible.
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cpellizzi posted this at 05:18 — 9th November 2005.
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I am sure it should apply to 8 as well. I use 7 to edit my code, and it works quite well. It is probably not the best php editor, but it works. It will do syntax highlighting, etc.
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JeevesBond posted this at 23:11 — 13th November 2005.
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Whilst never having used DW8 I've used 7 quite extensively and it's support for PHP is very good, although you should hand-code something as complicated as PHP.
It's not even possible to get HTML 100% with a WYSIWYG editor IMO, so PHP is never going to be anywhere near as good from an out of the box solution as it is when you write it yourself, for your specific purpose.
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