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ageeson
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Visiual Editing Program

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Happy 4th everyone. I'm looking for a program that would let me do some visual editing of PHP code. I use Dreamweaver CS5 and can edit the code but cannot visual my changes. I do not a do ton of PHP but have an small bit of success in making minor changes.

My issue is now I have 2 applications (Wordpress & aMember Membership ) both are as you know PHP. I do know mysql and have my local machine running WAMP and it works great.F or the project I will be doing I want to do all the pages in PHP but of course I do not know how so I would need some type of visual guidance similar to the way Dreamweaver displays code and design.

Thank you all
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Christopher
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Re: Visiual Editing Program

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Not sure exactly what "visual editing" means, as it is sort of a MS term. You may want to look at NetBeans.
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Re: Visiual Editing Program

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I think most PHP programmers prefer not to use anything that might be called "drag-n-drop" or "wysiwyg". Like other scripting languages, the easiest way is to learn the basics of the syntax, in my opinion, because otherwise you will find yourself "dragging and dropping" stuff that doesn't go together and cause you to spend much more time trying to figure out why it doesn't work.

Or maybe you are just referring to the ability to preview a script page when you make a change. All you need there is to have your local web server, which you have, and view the page in a browser as "localhost/...(whatever)". I use PSPad, a freeware plain text editor that simplifies doing that, directly from its toolbar instead of needing to explicitly open a browser. It also detects what browsers you have installed and makes it easy to test the same page in multiple browsers.
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