Integrating PHP & Dreamweaver? 11
grovertime asks: "As a screenwriter-cum-Web developer, I have a pet project to create a Slashdot for the entertainment industry. I have been playing around with the Venezuelan version of Slashcode, namely PHP-Nuke. As it is PHP-based rather than Perl-based, it cannot support frames within my Dreamweaver-built site. I would like to merge the two so as to extend the capability of the site to containing streaming audio and video, etc. Has anyone wrapped PHP (particularly Nuke - or even Slashcode) with a Dreamweaver constructed multi-media site?"
Re:which ver of dreamweaver? (Score:1)
It plays nice with PHP if you set it up correctly. Go to WebMonkey and read the Dreamweaver FAQ there. It will help you setup PHP support correctly under Dreamweaver standard.
this is what your after (Score:1)
http://www.alphasigma.com/
have fun!
Re:JSP/PHP Comparison (Score:1)
JSP/PHP Comparison (Score:2)
Most of the 'support' of JSP in Dreamweaver is in database access. Dreamweaver gives you the tools to automatically script JDBC accesses within your page. Why can this be done for JSP but not PHP? Simple. JSP has a universal database access system, JDBC. If Macromedia were to support PHP they would have to individually support each and every different database, since use of each database requires a slightly different set of functions. Completely impractical. Until a generic set of database functions are added to PHP, I see no reason why Macromedia would support it.
If all the support you need is for Macromedia to understand that:
<?php
?>
blocks of code should not be touched, you can add this yourself into dreamweaver without much difficulty.
Annoy Macromedia (Score:2)
My suggestion? Send a polite note to Dreamweaver with your license numbers of the existing product. Tell them you'd upgrade for PHP enabled Untradev.
Same with anyone reading this. And I'll do it too. Dreamweaver is by far the most popular web dev app these days and PHP support is a must have feature for many of us creating dynamic web sites.
which ver of dreamweaver? (Score:2)
Re:JSP/PHP Comparison (Score:2)
I think there is a project underway to provide such a unversal DB interface analogous to DBI.pm in perl or JDBC in java or whatever. I want to say it was part of PHPLIB but I'm not sure. I do recall seeing mention of it on phpbuilder.net somewhere.
Ah, anyway, (vi|vim|emacs|notepad.exe) are probably the most popular web dev tools. :-) But then I'm a web progammer and not a designer so my perspective is no doubt a little different.
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Does it have to be Dreamweaver? (Score:2)
Have you seen PHPEdit (http://www.phpedit.com/)
Why PHP specific? (Score:2)
No matter what language it is, I just use my favorite editor. Which currently is jext (jext.sourceforge.net). It color codes PHP code I think, and can save to unix \nl format. Plus it runs on any system with a java vr. Use IBM's jdk for linux, but sun's for windows.
Homesite / Dreamweaver (Score:2)
I actually use Dreamweaver to knock up HTML template files etc, and then get the source, clean it up by hand then just use Homesite to put in code.
Re:JSP/PHP Comparison (Score:2)