Mathematicman Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hey everyone I have a question, and I don't know if this is the best Forum to post it in, so if it's not the right place I'm sorry. Anyway, here's my question. Does anybody know if it's possible to open PHP files with the HTML editor included in Visual Studio 2003? When ever I try it, it opens with the XML editor, so I can't do what I want to do with it. Thanks in advance for your help Mathematicman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barand Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Microshaft adopted <? as the tag for xml code. Does it open the php file if you use long tag <?php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmy0320 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I would not use something by microsoft, especially for PHP.... there are plenty of PHP editors that are nice. Zend Studio is one for example, http://www.zend.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathematicman Posted February 25, 2008 Author Share Posted February 25, 2008 Microshaft adopted <? as the tag for xml code. Does it open the php file if you use long tag <?php Yeah... I don't think that's it... Usually when I use PHP I use the <?php tag, not <? (unless I use it for the end, (?>)) Also, often my php files will contain mostly HTML, or in some cases all HTML... so I would think it would see no XML like code... but it still opens it as a XML file... I would not use something by microsoft, especially for PHP.... there are plenty of PHP editors that are nice. Zend Studio is one for example, http://www.zend.com Yeah, I know Visual Studio isn't really the best option, but I use a shared computer, so I can't really download any other software, but the computer does have visual studio with an HTML editor (which is better than what I was using before (Notepad )), Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisNz Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Theres a plugin for vs.net 2k3 here but its not free. http://vs-php-for-visual-studio-net-2003.jcx-software-corp.qarchive.org/ Alternatively you could try to find a php editor that can be installed on a flash drive. SciTE apparently does and its free! http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I like dreamweaver, even though it is not free I love it. The way it changes the text to color coded makes it easier to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Even free PHP editors do that too. Check out the Editor discussion in the Misc forum. I like dreamweaver, even though it is not free I love it. The way it changes the text to color coded makes it easier to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neptunus Maris Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 PHP Designer mpsoftware.dk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl33to Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Microshaft adopted <? as the tag for xml code. ahhhhh, so that'll be why short tags are now turned off by default in php 5 - cheers microsoft I've heard of an online editor that's recently been launched, its supposed to have syntax highlighting etc, cant recall the name though. edit: helene and EditArea both do syntax higlighting in the browser, EditArea looks best though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauer418 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Microshaft adopted <? as the tag for xml code. ahhhhh, so that'll be why short tags are now turned off by default in php 5 - cheers microsoft I've heard of an online editor that's recently been launched, its supposed to have syntax highlighting etc, cant recall the name though. edit: helene and EditArea both do syntax higlighting in the browser, EditArea looks best though CodePress is coded in JS and has syntax highlighting. Not sure what languages it's built for though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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