Posted by Moot on 06/06/07 20:17

On Jun 6, 1:55 pm, Toby <tobis...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> i guess what i was wondering was more about development tools. i would
> really like a cheap visual integrated design environment (where i can
> switch between a graphical view, code view, etc.)

Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't any decent
development tool out there that merges graphical and code views and is
also a good PHP environment. Something like Dreamweaver will give you
the graphical, but the few times I've tried to do PHP with it were
very uncomfortable, to say the least. Any other fullblown PHP IDE
(personally, I use Zend Studio), on the other hand, offers little to
no graphical view support. In Zend, it's the html and that's it. You
want to see what it looks like, you load it in the browser.

> also, something
> that i can run a 'virtual server' on my pc so i dont have to upload to
> test every time i make a change to the php code.

Google for XAMPP. Comes preconfigured with PHP, MySQL, Apache, and a
host of other things. An easy to use control panel lets you turn it
on/off at will to do local testing before uploading.

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