Need A Graphical PHP Editor.

[Mar]

What does everyone use? I tried Dreamweaver but it just shows little yellow symbols where PHP is supposed to be. And I don't want to upload to my server everytime I make a change to see what happened.

[nos_efx]

I'm not too sure about your issue, but I've ran ASP scripts and tested them using IIS locally and everything worked fine. You may be lacking a windows component to recognize PHP scripts.

Try installing IIS it usually installs the ASP/PHP plugins necessary.

[Mar]

Well basically right now I'm editing the the PHP code in Wordpad and uploading it to the server after each change to see if it breaks. I want to be able to use a GUI where I can click a button and delete it instead of having to find the actual line of code to delete it.

[viperous]

If you're learning PHP, I can only suggest best that you learn to know why your code is breaking and learn the syntax.

http://www.php.net is your friend.

Are you by chance a NMPD student?

[Mar]

No, I got a computer science degree 2 years ago but of all the programming languages I learned, we never touched PHP at all. So I can read about 10 different languages and PHP makes sense, but I just don't know it well enough to code it.

[Alterac]

Maguma Studio for PHP

Colorization in the IDE, local running of scripts, debugging. etc.

[nusneak]

Have an idea of what you are doing and it wont break, the great thing about PHP is you can write scripts and reuse them in other applications or some of the code.

[Mar]

Originally posted by Alterac
Maguma Studio for PHP

Colorization in the IDE, local running of scripts, debugging. etc.

I guess more of what I'm looking for is how to set one of these programs up. I can either download PHP to my computer and use that for an internal preview but that wasn't working because it needs mysql as well. So then my other option is to specify my server settings so it can use the server for previews without me having to upload the file all the time. So what are these 2 fields when it asks for information on the server?

Web Server Documents Root Directory - Is this just the / root directory of the server I have? Or is it the /var/www/html/wpmu directory I have everything running out of?

Web Server Root URL - And is this just the http://ipofmyserver/?

[viperous]

Are you trying to set up an enviroment to work in? I use WAMP at work for PHP and XAMP at home. Both are pretty good. Comes with PHP, mySQL, SQL, Apache and other stuff. Give that a try.

[WhiteNikes]

I suppose Emacs isn't what your after?