Creating Template and GUI?

[Barkster]

I've been using Dreamweaver to create my php pages and love the
functionality but when I start modifying code I start wondering if I
should be something else because it always throws off the extensions.
I like the fact that dreamweaver will insert some of the tedious code
for me but are there any php GUI's that are similar to dreamweaver?
I've downloaded a few paid scripts and see the use of *.tpl files and
wonder how they design that and make it functional without using a
WYSIWYG application. From what I've found there wasn't anything like
dreamweaver for php development but it seems like I should be moving
towards creating those tpl file instead of including pieces of files.
Is there anything that will allow you to create recordset and have any
like behaviors in dreamweaver. Does anyone have any tutorial or
examples for using/creating tpl templates? Thanks

[fletch]

I tend to hack designers html mock-ups to life. Learning how to use a
template is not so hard. I would not know where to start with
dreamweaver. How easy is it to do this?
<table>
<tr>
{repeat over field tag}
<th>{fieldname} </th>
{/repeat over field tag}
</tr>
{repeat over data}
<tr>
{repeat over field}
<td>{current row field data}</td>
{/repeat over field}
</tr>
{repeat over data}
</table>

I would imagine it would be hard to put tags in those places.