JeevesBond — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:11:57 +0000

Whilst never having used DW8 I've used 7 quite extensively and it's support for PHP is very good, although you should hand-code something as complicated as PHP.

It's not even possible to get HTML 100% with a WYSIWYG editor IMO, so PHP is never going to be anywhere near as good from an out of the box solution as it is when you write it yourself, for your specific purpose.

cpellizzi — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:18:02 +0000

I am sure it should apply to 8 as well. I use 7 to edit my code, and it works quite well. It is probably not the best php editor, but it works. It will do syntax highlighting, etc.

tallon — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:11:38 +0000

Hmm. DW 7? Does this apply to DW 8 as well? Or is something special about 7? And what makes dw (in general) a good PHP editor?

The whole "by hand" thing was refering to using code snippets and whatever php functionality that DW has to try and increase productivity while keeping quality as high as possible.

EarlDaniels — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:15:38 +0000

DW 7 (MX 2004) is still one of the better PHP editors available.

How do you want to code if not "by hand"? DW code snippets are somewhat OK, but the time to integrate and troubleshoot are often not faster than writing new code.

In terms of overall development costs, PHP is more cost effective than most other solutions. Having good tools is always important, but no tool, no matter how much improved from the previous version, can overcome unreasonable development time/cost estimates.