"Rex" <re************@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hello,
I am a PHP newbie looking for a PHP editor I can use with a WYSIWYG
interface for HTML (e.g. like Dreamweaver or Frontpage). I'm running
Vista. I am having installation problems with both Dreamweaver and
FCKEditor, so those two seem out of the question, even though they do
what I want. Basically, I'm looking to make changes mostly to the HTML
content of a PHP website, and want to do so in the easiest way
possible, preferably without having to manually FTP my files to and
from my computer.
Any insights?
Thanks!
Rex
While you are at it and beginning your PHP experience, consider the
structure that I finally adopted for myself. Any page I now write is
actually at least three files. The first file I call my template file. It
includes two other files. I goes something like this:
thePage.php:
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<?php
session_start();
require("thePageProcess.php");
?>
<html>
......more lines down to where it gets specific to this page. This is the
general "look and feel".
<?php require("thePageInclude.php"); ?>
......more trailing stuff to finish up.
</html>
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The thePageInclude.php file has the rest of the html stuff (and might have
some embedded <?php ?pieces as well. All the submittal processing and the
iniitalization stuff is done in the thePageProcess.php file. This greatly
speeds up development of multiple pages for a site and having a common look
and feel. It also reduced the testing time for look and feel and
centralizes it for easier modification (less errors). I also like to break
down other areas with appropriate "require"s as needed. Specifically, I
like to put my constants and common functions in separate files so that I
need to change things in only one place.
I am currently studying aspx.net. I was surprised to learn that they do
exactly the same thing. The have what they call a master page file (my
thePage.php), a page file for specific page that has all the html kind of
stuff (my thePageInclude.php) and a code-behind file that handles all the
submittal stuff (my thePageProcess.php).
Proper organization and design at the beginning save a tremendous amount of
time later on.
Shelly
