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IDE Advice required - newbie

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:03 am
by jvicinanza
Hello all,

I’m new here and have a question I’m sure someone can help me with.

I would like to put together a web site where the viewer can enter data into pre-defined fields and to store that data in a MySQL database.

Im assuming that PHP is the way to go here but im a beginning PHP programmer.

What I would like is a development environment which provides me with the ability to manage the look and feel of the web site, I,e, the content, as well as making it easy for me to create the forms, specify which fields are displayed on the form, perform field level validation etc, generate the SQL and store the user entered data in a mysql database.

Is there a single development environment/tool/IDE which will allow me to do this or do I have to manage the content in one tool and develop PHP/SQL in a second environment?

Any help much appreciated.

Thank you

Jason Vicinanza

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:35 am
by impulse()
I'm not sure about 1 environment but I can supply you with 2.

There's PHPMyAdmin for everything to do with MySQL.
And then there's notepad for writing PHP, I go for a PHP editor that has error highlighting and syntax colouring.

Hope that helps,

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:43 am
by Weirdan
Sounds like a job for symfony: http://www.symfony-project.com/

Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:37 am
by RobertGonzalez
This comes up rather often, so I will point you there as I have many others. When you have a good hour or so to read, scan through the 'What's your favorite PHP editor?' mega thread. There is a lot of reading, and a lot of opinions presented in it.