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need some help

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 6:53 pm
by Dakkon
Hello,

I am relatively new to using PHP and I have a couple of questions that I have been not been able to find answers too. First is there a visual editor for PHP? You know like MS’s Visual Studio (I like color what can I say)? Second I know that recently PHP has added the command line features… and I was wondering if there was a way to connect a PHP script to a C++ program? I am developing a program that is going to require access to a mySQL database and I am going to have to have a C++ program and web access to the database. So I was hoping that I could kill 2 birds with one stone and just write one PHP class so I would not have up on the code. Does anyone have answers for me?

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 7:31 pm
by Peter
There is no GUI editor (like MSVS) that I no of as PHP is a command line langauge and not an object orientientated langauge (by OOP I mean programming with visible objects like buttons and list, etc.) Zend Studio is an excellent PHP editor but does cost a bit. There is a demo though.

I am not sure about the command line functions (assuming you mean DOS), but you'd have to make two different classes... one for C++ and one for PHP.

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 4:01 am
by volka
visual editor for PHP
Do you mean RAD? if so, I don't know a GUI. But you may try phpEdit assuming that you're working on win32 (MS DevStudio). It took me a while to get it work properly but now it's quite nice.

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 9:01 am
by MattF
I use PHPCoder, it is completely free, has good syntax highlighting and a handy feature that if you pause while typing a function it tells you what is needed - but I can only get that working for functions I have created myself.

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 11:40 am
by Piera
There is also Visual PHP Studio out available at
http://www.visualphpstudio.com

But last time I checked the site it was down.

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 2:44 pm
by twigletmac
I've been using Editplus for a while now and it does a fairly good job with syntax highlighting and an autocomplete thingy that you can edit yourself. It can be used for HTML and perl stuff as well.

Mac

Thanx

Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 12:09 pm
by Dakkon
Thank you all for the informatoin on PHP editors I will take a look into them.

But I am still trying to find out if you can interface C++ with PHP. And when I asked the question I don't think I made myself clear on what I want to do. I want to write a C++ program that will call PHP scripts to get and manuipulate information in a PHP script. So the question is does anyone know if you can call a PHP script inside of a C++ program?