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Does such a monster exist??

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:24 pm
by waskelton4
Hey group..

I've been programming PHP in Dreamweaver for about three years on and off. I've finally gotten projects going that are worth doing right so i'm looking for a little bit more in my editor..

I"ve downloaded the zend studio trial and from what i can tell it seems to be almost exactly what i'm looking for but not quite..

What i'd like to have is an IDE with CVS, syntax highlighting, ftp and since i now seem to be a slave to DW.. a wysiwyg editor.. is there anything out there that will do all these? or is there a way to integrate a 3rd party wysiwyg editor into the zend studio?

If not.. maybe my best bet will be to learn how to use CVS correctly.. i've given it a shot a few times and haven't gotten it down.. i suppose that's a different thread though..

any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks much
will

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:52 pm
by murph
I have Zend Studio and it is by far the BEST program i have ever used. Programming with a WYSIWYG editor is more pain than its worth. I suggest just buying zend and learning that. It has awesome features that debug your code an syntax hightlighting. And its like word when you make an error it uderlines the error and everything. So far it has saved me hours of coding!

Murph

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:43 pm
by Cruzado_Mainfrm
in DW MX you can actually see in runtime what u have so far in programming, but that's not the best thing, cuz then u won't have enough space to write... if u r a programmer u BETTER use a browser to preview what u have so far... mozilla maybe?

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 2:54 pm
by waskelton4
well what i use the wysiwyg for is createing, sizeing, and change the attribues of tables pretty quickly. and somewhat of a preview i suppose.. inserting images and other objects.. and especially building forms.. dw makes that much easier.

maybe i'll try using them both together.. or maybe find a lighter weight wysiwyg cause dw sure is a memory hog..

i suppose when i'm building forms and sizing tables i'm not doing a whole lot of real php programming..

thanks for the replys..

anyone else with any other thoughts?