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Anybody used Dreamweaver to write PHP?

Post by alex_public »

I'd like to know experiences in using this tool.
Is it worthy?
does it work with complex app.?

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Post by qads »

i use it most of the time, can't be bothered to switch bettween programms cos of the layout checkng etc.

its quite good but i am sure most people will tell you better ones :roll:
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Post by SantaGhost »

i use dreamweaver and it works perfectly for me, i got a local server for easy troubleshooting, sometimes it doesnt get the color codes perfectly but it works fine for me...
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Post by Linkjames »

Its what I use. It does the job fine for me.
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Post by Unipus »

Works as well as any other decent text editor.
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Post by Aaron »

Works fine for me. I cant use anything else, theres no PHP supported html editors.
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Post by JayBird »

Yup, i use it too, not exclusively, but 90% of the time.

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Post by xisle »

I have problems with other users of a particular site using the page sync
functions and overwriting my work on the server.
I no longer recommend to clients that they use
Dreamweaver or a coding tool with sync functions.
For code editing I am sure it is fine, this is only a
case of consulting with a client of what best to use
when they choose to work on their own pages.
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Post by locscout »

why not use phpEd, very cool, i like it
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Post by twigletmac »

Don't use Dreamweaver's ability to autogenerate PHP code, it produces a great big pile of inefficient, pretty useless, will be difficult for you to maintain (based on questions I've seen in the forum) code. Use it as a text-editor and write your own PHP.

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Post by Nay »

I've used dreamweaver before, and like Mac said, it has a lot of unnecessary codes in it. I scratch my head sometimes wondering why they're even there.

Anyway, there are a few good HTML editors that colors the PHP syntax and all. 1st Page 2000 from Evrsoft and HTML-kit is a few of them.

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Post by JayBird »

Dreamweaver is excellent if you know how to use it correctly and know what you are doing.

The only time Dreamweaver adds a lot of uneccessary code is when you don't understand the HTML/code the it being used.

If you use it entirely as a WYSYWIG editor, then yes, your code will be messy, you need to be in the Code view most of the time, or the split code/design view.

I have used Dreamweaver since version 2 and have tried numerous other applications, none even come close to Dreamweaver.

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Post by Nay »

lol. I just used Dreamweaver for a while and gave up on it. I wasn't that keen to the interface. Well, it's just an opionion lol. But then when it all comes down to the fastest and most flexible, It's notepad.

One that does nothing is good for anything. Notepad's completely manual lol.

:D

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Post by Unipus »

I guess it's the most flexible, but it's sure not the fastest. I don't understand how you can be efficient when you have no contextual coloring, no line numbers, no syntax completion, no automatic style linking.

I used to use Notepad, too, and now I will certainly never go back. But, to each his own.

UltraEdit 32 is an extremely full-featured editor with PHP support, as well. I alternate between that and DWMX.
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Unipus wrote:I guess it's the most flexible, but it's sure not the fastest. I don't understand how you can be efficient when you have no contextual coloring, no line numbers, no syntax completion, no automatic style linking.
What program are you talking about there?

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