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Flashmatazz
August 12th, 2005, 06:22 AM
So I've decided to setup my Mac with PHP/mySQL and start to learn PHP a bit better, since I'm quite a beginner atm :)

Anyways: PHP and MySQL are installed now but I'd like to know what people think is THE best (free) PHP editor to use on Mac OSX.

And while I'm at it: any suggestions for a graphic MySQL manager as well?

Thanks.

G
August 12th, 2005, 06:36 AM
First the mySQL terminal is the best way to interact etc with mySQL.....you should really just stick with it there are not many tools out there (phpMyAdmin the most popluar) for graphical interaction.

As for PHP editors I have been looking at this one for a while and may buy it (its only $25)

PHP Studio

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Development/Editors/PHP-Studio.shtml

Looks pretty cool and I've read reviews and they say its good...so....give it a go :)

Also you can download a plugin for Eclipse but I don't really like it :( (Eclipse is free).

erm.......what else is there.....TextWrangler....??? its a text editor with PHP syntax highlighting....go to barebones.com :)

What are you after an IDE or.....?

Flashmatazz
August 12th, 2005, 08:32 AM
Lots of possibilities to choose from. In the meanwhile I downloaded jEdit.
First impressions are ok. I'll try it out for a while to see how it works.

Other question: suppose I want to do XML creating/editing (think of a CMS) using PHP. It seems there are quite a number of ways to do that.
What would be the preferred way? Could anyone point me in the right direction on this? Maybe DOM XML??

Flashmatazz
August 12th, 2005, 11:00 AM
Maybe I should stick to something I know, like Flash...

I've tried some very simple DOM XML example, but can't get it to work. And apparently my PHP installation does not show any errors. Now that is helpfull...

I thought it has to do with php.ini, so I tried to locate it and change it but it's locked and I don't know how to change that... I guess I'm too much of a beginner at this :(