Posted by Steve Belanger on 03/05/07 19:00

indeed there is no WYSIWYG view for VS.Php we are trying to keep the
structure and general architecture as close to the Visual Studio IDE as
possible.

however there is remote debugging that you can use, you can specify the path
to a local server you run on your machine, and use the remote debugging to
see how one page would behave once completely processed by the php
executable.

XDebug is a PHP Debugger, generally working as an extension you can add into
your PHP Configuration, just like DBG

We are working on providing support for XDebug in future releases though. So
users will have a choice between DBG (actually supported) and XDebug
depending of their choice of debugger.

There is also a Deployment module with in VS.Php.

it will not synchronize copies from remote to local like dreaweaver does,
but it is used to upload a project. it works in such a way that when you
open the project and do the first deploy, it will update all files present
in your project, but after that, whenever you do subsequent deploys it will
only update the files you modified since last time you performed a deployed
within your work session.

It also comes with something i consider rather useful and time saving, which
is called PHP Language References. if you take common IDEs such as Zend
Studio, dreamweaver and others, they will provide all content within the
intellisense (this is the dropdown like window that popup when you start
typing a command). With VS.Php you have the ability to limit the content of
this intellisense to what you want inserted in there either as a Language
Reference (build-in reference files taken from the content of the PHP
manual), or user references (you can supply you own files to be inserted as
intellisense content, such as custom functions or classes that you wrote).

If you have any suggestions feel free to register on the website i mentioned
in my first post, or just let me know in there and i will pass the
suggestion around to the programmer's team.

Hope this shed some lights :)

Steve.


"David Smithz" <dave1900@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ByKGh.12878$I46.574@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
> Thanks for the input Mike and Steve.
>
> I tried out the VS one Steve suggested and was excited by the Visual
> Studio interface (although I've not used one since VB6, but it looks the
> same but better).
>
> However, I did not seem to be able to find a view which showed my HTML
> llike in the same way dreamweaver does. I do find this very useful and
> would not want to sacrafise it.
>
> I like the sound of your suggestions Mike. Does eclipse have the HTML
> design view like Dreamweaver (I have just installed the trial for
> Dreamweaver 8 and do say the code editing looks much better - but there
> are many bad reviews about the product generally).
>
> As I don't know what XDebug I guess I don't use it. But maybe it is
> something I should be using.
>
> Bascally over the next few months I'm going to be doing a lot of PHP
> coding and I want to make my life as easy as possible. Previously I have
> just used Dreameweaver 7 and TextPad (text editor) and uploaded to server
> to test.
>
> Any more hints / feedback welcome.
>
> Thanks
>

[Back to original message]