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Sep 05.2005

Hello! I have a problem. My dreamweaver trial should run out soon. And instead of spending more money, i found out that you can write it out in notepad. So I will. But one problem. It won’t display the PHP scripts i write down until i upload it into my site. Can anyone help me? I need to know what it looks like before I send it up but it only shows me the HTML. Even when i change the extension from .php to .html. Can anyone help me, it’s driving me nuts!?

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@SheldonSep 05.2005 — install a php enabled web server on your home computer, then you can edit in notpad and veiw as normal with firefox.

Download [url=http://www.appservnetwork.com/]appserv[/url] if you run windows. it is an easy to use install and will set up everything you need.



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@aznchong91Sep 05.2005 — You could also just uninstall and then reinstall dreamweaver, you know. That way, the count restarts. (I have never tried it, but it should work)
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@bathurst_guySep 05.2005 — no it doesnt work, but why do something like that, might as well download a crack..
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@SheldonSep 05.2005 — or shall out for it, you make money from sites so spend money to make them good!
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@bathurst_guySep 05.2005 — not that dreamweaver makes your web sites better just cause your using it, you can make a web site just as good using notepad
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@SheldonSep 05.2005 — Oh yer thats not what im saying i dont use it, i just the mac os BBEdit typing by hand is much the better way to do it i agree, but some people preffer a wysiwyg editor.
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@Stephen_PhilbinSep 05.2005 — not that dreamweaver makes your web sites better just cause your using it, you can make a web site just as good using notepad[/QUOTE]

Exactly. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that far more of the sites that have had their entire databases deleted or otherwise cracked just by the wrong input given in a login form, were built using a visual editor rather than carefully being built by hand.
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@rch10007Sep 05.2005 — is there any apps that let you see color coded php while you are developing?

nice sig sheldon, real nice!
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@bathurst_guySep 05.2005 — you could try EditPlus, There are a bundle, you'll soon notice....
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@SheldonSep 06.2005 — or for the mac BBEdit is great

Thanks, haha i think i was quoting you wasn't I?
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@rch10007Sep 06.2005 — yea I'm the one who said that about bokeh - it's funny to see that in a sig!
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@rch10007Sep 06.2005 — bart - do you have a version of EditPlus that doesn't expire?
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@NogDogSep 06.2005 — [url=http://www.chami.com/html-kit/]HTML-Kit[/url] has context-sensitive text colors for PHP (as well as for the HTML outside of your <?php ?> tags). There are also a number of PHP-related plug-ins you can install. And it's free (one of the main reasons I use it ? ).
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@JohnWeatherbySep 06.2005 — [URL=http://devphp.sourceforge.net]Dev-PHP[/URL] is an open source editor with preview and syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript and SQL.
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@rch10007Sep 06.2005 — Anyone care to comment on significant differences between HTML-Kit and Dev-PHP, I have downloaded them both and Dev-PHP seems simplier to use but does that mean that HTML-Kit has a bunch of useless functions?

To think - I've been using notepad this whole time - I should be able to cut down on debugging time by useful color coded code!
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@NogDogSep 06.2005 — HTML-Kit is first and foremost a HTML editor, so it comes with a lot of stuff for support of [X]HTML markup and such. I'm not really familiar with Dev-PHP, but I just downloaded it to give it a quick look-see. My first impression is that it does not have as much depth to its syntax highlighting as does HTML-Kit. For instance, these two lines would look the same in Dev-PHP, but have different highlighting for the function name in HTML-Kit (due to mysql_query() being a pre-defined function in PHP):
<i>
</i>mysql_query($query);
my_sql_function($query):

Other than that, I don't have enough information to say if either outshines the other in other respects. For now I'm pretty sure I'll stick with HTML-Kit because I'm used to it. ?
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