Can There Be a PHP Drag & Drop GUI IDE?
Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 4:28 am
I'm not sure this dumb question belongs here but I was less sure it belonged in any of the other forums... so, moderator, please excuse me if it's wrong, move it and forgive...
I've been using Visual Studio to build a small app in C# and Asp.net (I'm a pure beginner) and now I belatedly find that this setup is useless for all those Linux servers.
So turn to PHP. Okay. I don't mind. But I'd like to be able to start my app the way I did in visual studio, it was good, drag and drop controls - input box, submit control, file upload control, then just double click on them to have a window open up for the 'onclick' event and write the handler.
with this in mind I've searched everywhere for what I've googled variously as 'php gui', 'php drag and drop', 'php gui ide', 'php ide' and so on....... and I've got at least six different things, the latest of which was Aptana and there's been Dev php3 and vs.php and more....
And none of them do this. None of them. Unless I've failed to see how to do it, which is always possible.
But I was thinking about it and maybe it simply isn't possible with PHP? Like those controls are asp controls, objects with properties and events......... does PHP have controls like that? I suspect not. PHP just handles html objects doesn't it?
All the things I've downloaded are just various levels of fancy editors.
I suspect I'm chasing a phantom.
Could someone please set me straight? Is php so different somehow that I should completely change my mind about how to go about writing apps in php?
I've been using Visual Studio to build a small app in C# and Asp.net (I'm a pure beginner) and now I belatedly find that this setup is useless for all those Linux servers.
So turn to PHP. Okay. I don't mind. But I'd like to be able to start my app the way I did in visual studio, it was good, drag and drop controls - input box, submit control, file upload control, then just double click on them to have a window open up for the 'onclick' event and write the handler.
with this in mind I've searched everywhere for what I've googled variously as 'php gui', 'php drag and drop', 'php gui ide', 'php ide' and so on....... and I've got at least six different things, the latest of which was Aptana and there's been Dev php3 and vs.php and more....
And none of them do this. None of them. Unless I've failed to see how to do it, which is always possible.
But I was thinking about it and maybe it simply isn't possible with PHP? Like those controls are asp controls, objects with properties and events......... does PHP have controls like that? I suspect not. PHP just handles html objects doesn't it?
All the things I've downloaded are just various levels of fancy editors.
I suspect I'm chasing a phantom.
Could someone please set me straight? Is php so different somehow that I should completely change my mind about how to go about writing apps in php?