Comments on: Dreamweaver CS4 and PHP http://www.killerphp.com/articles/dreamweaver-cs4-and-php/ Dedicated to teaching web designers PHP. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:56:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stefan Mischook http://www.killerphp.com/articles/dreamweaver-cs4-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-164168 Stefan Mischook Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:30:30 +0000 http://www.killerphp.com/articles/?p=155#comment-164168 Hi, Dreamweaver's code generating tools are really best suited for either: 1. prototypes. 2. very small app development. I was writing a book on this for a major publisher for DW CS4 and stopped part of the way through partly because it was clear that Adobe wasn't going to do much on this end. ... It was also known that it was and is clearly understand that the code generators are very limited. If you want to get into real PHP, try other IDE's or just use DW's code editor + a few macros. Stefan Hi,

Dreamweaver’s code generating tools are really best suited for either:

1. prototypes.
2. very small app development.

I was writing a book on this for a major publisher for DW CS4 and stopped part of the way through partly because it was clear that Adobe wasn’t going to do much on this end.

… It was also known that it was and is clearly understand that the code generators are very limited.

If you want to get into real PHP, try other IDE’s or just use DW’s code editor + a few macros.

Stefan

]]> By: Jan Miller http://www.killerphp.com/articles/dreamweaver-cs4-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-160669 Jan Miller Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:13:58 +0000 http://www.killerphp.com/articles/?p=155#comment-160669 I cannot seem to find any info on this online but my DreamWeaver CS4 and a trial of DreamWeaver CS5 both create PHP and SQL queries that are loaded with syntax errors. I use XAMPP on my computer as I have done for years, and it works fine with phpMyAdmin and Komodo Edit. DreamWeaver has been a nifty app to quickly knock out simple applications in that past, but now I spend too much time manually correcting syntax errors in PHP page queries. Has anyone there heard of a fix for this? Several other web developers have told me that they entirely abandoned DW CS* series and moved on to other IDE's rather than try to fix the problem. najrellim@gmail.com I cannot seem to find any info on this online but my DreamWeaver CS4 and a trial of DreamWeaver CS5 both create PHP and SQL queries that are loaded with syntax errors. I use XAMPP on my computer as I have done for years, and it works fine with phpMyAdmin and Komodo Edit. DreamWeaver has been a nifty app to quickly knock out simple applications in that past, but now I spend too much time manually correcting syntax errors in PHP page queries.

Has anyone there heard of a fix for this? Several other web developers have told me that they entirely abandoned DW CS* series and moved on to other IDE’s rather than try to fix the problem.

najrellim@gmail.com

]]> By: Korky Kathman http://www.killerphp.com/articles/dreamweaver-cs4-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-109706 Korky Kathman Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:49:35 +0000 http://www.killerphp.com/articles/?p=155#comment-109706 Actually I've been really disappointed with DM CS4. Compared to other, free IDE's (even on Mac) CS4 is very poor in support of PHP. There's no code completion, no real-time (or even semi-real time) syntax checking, which I deem necessary for large projects where you make silly typos that cost you time and effort to debug. Speaking of debug, there is none. Most people's PHP needs would be much better served using Aptana Studio 1.5 (not the 2.0 version that uses PDT) or NetBeans (which is outstanding. Both of these are better solutions for the serious PHP pro. They are even better than Zend, which falls terribly short in featured compared to the above, and its costs $300 or so. Actually I’ve been really disappointed with DM CS4. Compared to other, free IDE’s (even on Mac) CS4 is very poor in support of PHP. There’s no code completion, no real-time (or even semi-real time) syntax checking, which I deem necessary for large projects where you make silly typos that cost you time and effort to debug. Speaking of debug, there is none.

Most people’s PHP needs would be much better served using Aptana Studio 1.5 (not the 2.0 version that uses PDT) or NetBeans (which is outstanding. Both of these are better solutions for the serious PHP pro. They are even better than Zend, which falls terribly short in featured compared to the above, and its costs $300 or so.

]]> By: Stefan Mischook http://www.killerphp.com/articles/dreamweaver-cs4-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-79852 Stefan Mischook Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:45:41 +0000 http://www.killerphp.com/articles/?p=155#comment-79852 The database features have been around for years btw. The database features have been around for years btw.

]]> By: deef http://www.killerphp.com/articles/dreamweaver-cs4-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-79834 deef Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:49:14 +0000 http://www.killerphp.com/articles/?p=155#comment-79834 Thank you for the overview. It seems an upgrade to CS4 is definitely recommended. Especially the feature to connect to MySQL-databases is very interesting. Thank you for the overview.

It seems an upgrade to CS4 is definitely recommended. Especially the feature to connect to MySQL-databases is very interesting.

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