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Integrating PHP & Dreamweaver? 11

Posted by Cliff from the bringing-two-great-tastes-together dept.
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?"
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  • I have been using Dreamweaver UltraDev to develope my PHP based site. (the templateing is VERY VERY VERY nice)
    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.


  • http://www.dreamworker.de/
    http://www.alphasigma.com/
    have fun!
  • Yes, PHPLIB does have support for this, and it works for PHP 3 and 4 out-of-the-box. PHPLIB has a semi-steep learning curve, but, IMHO, it's definitely worth the extra initial effort. See http://phplib.netuse.de Also, for a good PHP 4 book that includes a section on PHPLIB, try Web Application Development with PHP 4.0. See http://www.phpwizard.net/book/ (More info below) Book info: Paperback - 384 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (July 15, 2000) New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 0735709971 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 8.93 x 6.96
  • I don't think you're being completely fair to Macromedia. I'm just going to compare PHP and JSP here, since those are the two systems that I use most frequently.
    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.
  • Cybersource uses Dreamweaver for designing all its client sites, as well as its own site. Macromedia have chosen to support Coldfusion, JSP, and ASP with Dreamweaver Ultradev. As far as I know, they seem to be extremely ignorant over PHP [which surely has more market share than JSP, at least].

    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.

  • Have you any experience with Dreamweaver Ultradev? I would imagine that it would have a much easier time integrating with PHP than good ole Dreamweaver. In fact, I think there are some PHP extensions available for Ultradev. You ought to check it out; I haven't done any particular work with Ultradev and PHP, but I would imagine that it's not too difficult to work with. --CM

  • 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.


    --

  • There are a nubmer of PHP editors with differning degrees of maturity available.

    Have you seen PHPEdit (http://www.phpedit.com/)

  • Why would you like your editor to be PHP specific? To parse the PHP tags?

    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 integrates pretty well into Dreamweaver on Win32 & is or at least was bundled, Homesite works pretty good with PHP too.

    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.
  • One such project is ADODB [weblogs.com].

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