php rad tools

[drtanz]

hi i was wondering whether tools such as codecharge studio and webdev are commonly used in the php community. They seem to be quite powerful and claim to save a lot of coding time for developers, what are your thoughts? thanks

[cooldude832]

since php is open source a lot of prefabricated scripts are out there, the best way to make your life easy with php is to develop a function libarry that you can use that contains all your basic functions like many people take a basic update mysql query as a function and say

<?php
function update($table,$where,$data){
$q = "Update".$table."SET ";
foreach($data <= $key as $value){
$q .= $key." + ".$value;
}
$q .= " Where ";
foreach($where <= $key as $value){
$q .= $key." + ".$value;
}
mysql_query($q) or die(mysql_error());
}
?>

as an example.