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Old May 1st, 2002, 07:34 PM
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Is dreamweaver mx gonna finally be php friendly?
I just downloaded it. It asks if you want server technology when setting up a site. One of the technology fields is php. I did'nt see much change in viewing it. Anyone hear or know if dreamweaver will start intergrating php.

Personally I love Dreamweaver, because I design mostly. I program small scripts like links, galleries, and such. I doubt dreamweaver will want to do this anyway because of CF.
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Old May 4th, 2002, 12:12 AM
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I have to admit I'm really impressed. This thing handles PHP fairly well. I mean, it even puts mysql_error() into the die() for queries...how nice is that?

And, check this out, previous/next links are point and click. You create a record set (query), and then you can drag and drop columns from that query into your document, choose to insert a "previous link", "next link", "go to first page" link, etc.

There are "wizards" for creating INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements that use functions.

It even puts your database connection info into an include file and includes it in your main script.

It would take a little while to get used to it all if you're used to doing it by hand, but once you're used to it, I can see how it could save you some time.

Here's some code it generated for prev/next link page:
PHP Code:
<?php require_once('Connections/TestSite.php'); ?>
<?php
$currentPage = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["PHP_SELF"];

$maxRows_Recordset1 = 50;
$pageNum_Recordset1 = 0;
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['pageNum_Recordset1'])) {
  $pageNum_Recordset1 = $HTTP_GET_VARS['pageNum_Recordset1'];
}
$startRow_Recordset1 = $pageNum_Recordset1 * $maxRows_Recordset1;

mysql_select_db($database_TestSite, $TestSite);
$query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM test";
$query_limit_Recordset1 = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_Recordset1, $startRow_Recordset1, $maxRows_Recordset1);
$Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_limit_Recordset1, $TestSite) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1);

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['totalRows_Recordset1'])) {
  $totalRows_Recordset1 = $HTTP_GET_VARS['totalRows_Recordset1'];
} else {
  $all_Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1);
  $totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($all_Recordset1);
}
$totalPages_Recordset1 = (int)($totalRows_Recordset1/$maxRows_Recordset1);

$queryString_Recordset1 = "";
if (!empty($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING'])) {
  $params = explode("&", $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING']);
  $newParams = array();
  foreach ($params as $param) {
    if (stristr($param, "pageNum_Recordset1") == false && 
        stristr($param, "totalRows_Recordset1") == false) {
      array_push($newParams, $param);
    }
  }
  if (count($newParams) != 0) {
    $queryString_Recordset1 = "&" . implode("&", $newParams);
  }
}
$queryString_Recordset1 = sprintf("&totalRows_Recordset1=%d%s", $totalRows_Recordset1, $queryString_Recordset1);
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
There are <?php echo $totalRows_Recordset1 ?> records in the database
<br>
<table width="90%" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td>Column 1</td>
    <td>Column 2</td>
  </tr>
  <?php do { ?>
  <tr> 
    <td><?php echo htmlentities($row_Recordset1['c1']); ?></td>
    <td><?php echo htmlentities($row_Recordset1['c2']); ?></td>
  </tr>
  <?php } while ($row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1)); ?>
</table>
<a href="<?php printf("%s?pageNum_Recordset1=%d%s", $currentPage, max(0, $pageNum_Recordset1 - 1), $queryString_Recordset1); ?>"><< Previous</a> 
<a href="<?php printf("%s?pageNum_Recordset1=%d%s", $currentPage, min($totalPages_Recordset1, $pageNum_Recordset1 + 1), $queryString_Recordset1); ?>">Next >></a> 
</body>
</html>
<?php
mysql_free_result($Recordset1);
?>

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Old May 4th, 2002, 12:14 AM
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Forgot to mention the problems..

I did have to install it a second time because it wouldn't let me create a connection to MySQL. Kept giving me an "unidentified error"

Also, as you can see, it uses HTTP_GET_VARS instead of _GET. I really, really, hope that this is fixed in the release version. I imagine it will be, but that would be a certain way to almost doom it from doing PHP programming...

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Give me a text editor any day, software like this is what ruins the programming trade in my opinion, it allows to many novices to go around posing as professionals, taking the clients money, bugging out when it gets to complicated for them because they don`t actually understand PHP and never intend to learn, the client ends up not trusting web developers anymore because his experience working with this novice was so bad. Or the client ends up thinking that PHP could never do the job in the first place.

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Old May 5th, 2002, 03:01 PM
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Same here Silky. It'll be pretty lame also if all programmers end up to be debuggers for faulty scripts... where's the fun in that?
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Old May 5th, 2002, 03:22 PM
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People can write crappy code with or without a tool like this...just look at what gets posted on this forum.

I like dreamweaver b/c of the site syncronization, easy HTML layout, and other features...now it's even better with syntax highlighting and some of the functions might even make coding faster...maybe...

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i believe that dreamweaver mx is fine for programmers who already know what they are doing. but for newbies, tools like this promotes laziness and keeps them from really learning php.
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John,

Don`t get me wrong, I'm not saying D/W is a bad product, it does have many advantages, but I think Ronin summarised pretty well what I was trying to say.
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I checked out Dreamweaver MX !!!

It has really improved !!! and I luv it !!

Though I have yet to check its server side scripting capabilities, I don't think I would use Dreamweaver for that. The simple reason being I follow a style when I code. Like I never use DIE straight off. There would be always one error handling function which takes care of all the errors.

All the time I use templates, so I won't need that facilty where you can drop the recordsets and create pages. Its not my way.

Still I would say dreamweaver is the BEST html editor you can have for money !!!

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I wonder if the code it inserts is template driven or if new stuff could be added. I know there is a "snippets" tab, where you can save functions, classes, etc, I imagine.

It'd be nice if you could modify the code that's inserted to fit your own style...

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I must say that MM is impressing the hell out of me with DWMX.

The code generated is pretty clean. Not quite my style, but definately A LOT cleaner than I expected.

I haven't been a fan of DW and it was only on my computer because my partner who does design uses it. I'm going to give it the full workout over the next few days, and if it continues to impress, I'll definately be using it.
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