Dreamweaver + PHP?

[shuttleboi]

I've been writing pretty decent in-house and personal HTML+PHP sites with vi/vim for the last 8 years. I need to take it a step further and design a public page for a friend. I don't think vi is going to cut it, so I'm thinking of using Dreamweaver 8.

Does Dreamweaver provide significantly more tools than a basic text editor like vim?

Does Dreamweaver provide built-in support for PHP? Like syntax highlighting and running an actual PHP engine inside of it?

 

[Drakkon]

Dreamweaver has built in support for PHP 4, most of PHP5, along with mySQL support/highlighting as well

I think DW offers a lot more in the way of tools IF you can figure out how to use them properly. Thigns like the DB connection manager and site tools like that can work wonders and make for some super fast development, but they take some determination to learn.

 

[shuttleboi]

Does Dreamweaver have a PHP engine built-in? That is, do PHP scripts actually run while you're in Dreamweaver? Or does Dreamweaver just provide simple stuff like an editor with PHP highlighting?

 

[Drakkon]

if you run a webserver on the same machine as dreamweaver you can set it up to get a live preview, but in msot cases it just does syntax highlighting.