Newby question: Good PHP/Web editor

I have been developping in php for some months. My Web editor is FrontPage.
No need to say that editing PHP is far from easy, then. I have tried one or
two PHP editors. They are nice for PHP, but uneasy for the graphic
appearance of the pages, (I am not an expert of css, and graphic design,
generally speaking).

Which software would you recommend for merging good WYSIWIG design, and PHP
support?

Thank you

In article <bfmj42$c7m$1@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>, patrick
<patrick.desaunay@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> I have been developping in php for some months. My Web editor is FrontPage.
> No need to say that editing PHP is far from easy, then. I have tried one or
> two PHP editors. They are nice for PHP, but uneasy for the graphic
> appearance of the pages, (I am not an expert of css, and graphic design,
> generally speaking).
>
> Which software would you recommend for merging good WYSIWIG design, and PHP
> support?

Personally I think you can never go wrong by learning HTML and coding
yourself. The pages are always a lot smoother and slicker that what the
WYSIWIGs will do.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:13:40 +0200, patrick wrote:

> I have been developping in php for some months. My Web editor is FrontPage.
> No need to say that editing PHP is far from easy, then. I have tried one or
> two PHP editors. They are nice for PHP, but uneasy for the graphic
> appearance of the pages, (I am not an expert of css, and graphic design,
> generally speaking).

> Which software would you recommend for merging good WYSIWIG design, and PHP
> support?

You might just want to stick with what you've got. I use Adobe GoLive for
designing pages. It has extremely useful features like components and
templates, plus good CSS editing. The drag'n'drop design of pages makes
putting together a site very fast. But, while it has support for PHP
built-in, it is a tad flaky. So I tend to use a text editor for handling
the PHP part and just test it with a browser. It's not uncommon for me to
be running GoLive, Opera and Code-Genie (my chosen Windows editor, tend to
use Kwrite or Kate under Linux) all at the same time.

Others here have suggested hand-coding everything, and if absolute
performance and neat code are important to you, then that's good advice.
Personally, I find such considerations to be marginal at best and far
outweighed by the convenience of using a WYSIWYG editor. So go with what
feels best for you. There are no hard & fast rules about this.

I agree with Peter and Anthony, you should know HTML if you go further than
<? echo 'Hello world'; ?> with PHP. Your understanding of PHP will be better
and you'll produce nicer and better websites.

I use Adobe Photoshop/ImageReady for graphics, Dreamweaver for HTML design,
mostly forms and tables, and after that UltraEdit for 'making things work'
with PHP.

A good thing about Dreamweaver is that you're working kind of WYSIWYG, but
you can still control the code under it.

A bad thing about using ImageReady is that you can't easily change anything
in the design, without redoing the HTML.

Good luck,

- John

"patrick" <patrick.desaunay@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:bfmj42$c7m$1@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr...
> I have been developping in php for some months. My Web editor is
FrontPage.
> No need to say that editing PHP is far from easy, then. I have tried one
or
> two PHP editors. They are nice for PHP, but uneasy for the graphic
> appearance of the pages, (I am not an expert of css, and graphic design,
> generally speaking).
>
> Which software would you recommend for merging good WYSIWIG design, and
PHP
> support?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>

Maguma Studio is a great environment for PHP coding and debugging, has
PHP/MySQL documentation included and allows server connection within the app
for testing. I still prefer HomeSite/Dreamweaver because I'm just used to
the auto tag complete features and formatting, but when I have a code
problem that I can't debug, I go to Maguma to debug.

"patrick" <patrick.desaunay@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<bfmj42$c7m$1@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>...
> I have been developping in php for some months. My Web editor is FrontPage.
> No need to say that editing PHP is far from easy, then. I have tried one or
> two PHP editors. They are nice for PHP, but uneasy for the graphic
> appearance of the pages, (I am not an expert of css, and graphic design,
> generally speaking).
>
> Which software would you recommend for merging good WYSIWIG design, and PHP
> support?
>
> Thank you

Try Maguma PHP Studio (free version) at www.maguma.com.