Re: redhat 9 text editor

From: Ender Everett (supergiantpotato_at_yahoo.co.jp)
Date: 12/13/03 

Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:26:28 GMT

Monique wrote:

> I'm going to need a text editor for the project i'm working on. it
> has to be a PHP-capable WYSIWYG(?) application or IDE. THere are text
> editing packages that i can add on my machine.(RedHat9) I currently
> have Emacs and vim-enhanced installed. i can also install XEmacs and
> vim-X11. are any of these going to work for me or should i try
> something else.
>
> In the end i will need
>
> MySQL (check)
> Apache (check?)
> PHP (check?)
> web browser (check)
> text editor (eh?)

Are you saying you need a text editor or a web WYSIWYG editing tool (a'la
Dreamweaver, Webexpress, etc.)? Emacs (and variants) support just about
anything, but I don't really know if it has the sort of W~G capability you
are looking for if you intend to have graphics be click and draggable to
where they should be, etc.

As a GUI for web editing and all forms of scripting (PHP, perl, whatever)
Quanta Plus (don't flame me, it works if you're patient) works quite well
and allows pretty good preview displays of what you're writing... but this
isn't the same as W~G... and has a really good project management and
version history system.

I have no clue what you mean by "MySQL" and "Apache" and "web browser"
support. I mean, Apache is a web server. It serves things to the web one
way or the other. You teach it to recognise a PHP page and hand it off to
the PHP interpreter at the appropriate times... a web browser is not an
editor, so is totally independent of a W~G editor in the same way Apache is
-- Netscape/Mozilla are the exception here, don't think Galeon is this way.
In a similar way, MySQL is a database system that runs totally independent
of the others. PHP meshes very well with it, and Apache hands off to PHP
with can hand off to MySQL or any other database system when needed
(SQL-based or not), but these are all independent of an editor. You don't
dynamically edit a database's contents as you write and script a web page.
They are two separate tasks completely. Your pages just display/manipulate
what is contained in your database based on how they are scripted.

Anyway, if you know HTML and SQL yourself, then KWrite will do you fine,
Emacs will do you even better, and Quanta Plus will do you sort of the way
Emacs would.

If I'm way off in what I wrote, could you please be a little more specific
and clear about what you are trying to do?

-Me 

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