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IS there any Graphical User Interface for PHP

         

Butterfly Wing

6:56 am on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Am so sick of trying to make php code and wasting lot of my time, as am a web designer ,,

so is there any GUI for PHP which automatically generates php codes and makes my development fast and good and easy..

plz let me know , be really thanks full to ya ll.. and also a particular downloads link

\thnaks again

mincklerstraat

8:53 am on Nov 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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There are gui programs that can write php for you, the problem is that php is a powerful language and allows you to do very, very specific things. You won't have this power when using a gui program; the program will do stuff you don't want it to do, and not do some stuff you do want it to.

I'd be actually more inclined in your case to find PHP scripts that almost do what you want them to do, learn only a bit of PHP, and 'hack' them so they do what you want. Need a weblog, but one that shows the author's pic? Download a weblog program that shows the author's name, and just add to the part outputting the HTML

'echo <img src="'.$authorname.'.jpg'" alt="'.$authorname.'\'s mugshot">';

and just name each pic of the author always according to what you fill in as the field $authorname (well, maybe replace spaces with dashes,
str_replace
is your friend.
You'll need this 'bit' of PHP knowledge anyways for your GUI when it isn't doing what you want.

You can waste a whole lot of time on a GUI trying to get it to do what you want, and none of that time has been really spent getting to know PHP better, just the GUI.

The GUI will probably write sloppy code with a lot of stuff you don't need, and you won't understand all the code that it does produce, you'll try to modify it and it won't work any more. We get quite a few people here posting questions about dreamweaver-created code and it's usually a rather unpleasant experience for the people asking the questions and the people answering them.

Some GUI programs that do write php: dreamweaver and codecharge. You've probably heard of dreamweaver; and codecharge is just for php and other scripting languages. I thought codecharge looked really cool - but then I got to thinking, how long is it going to take me to learn to use this? And I figured my time was spent better learning more PHP. It does take some time, but if you're a webdesigner, this time is definitely worth it.

Butterfly Wing

11:34 am on Nov 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



thanks for the history man..

i will do that