What is supposed to happen when you select the Internal Preview tab? At the moment I get two tabs "Messages" and "Source" at the bottom of what is presumably a message area pane, followed some seconds by a message "CGIRunner Process was terminated".
What is supposed to happen when you select the External Preview tab? I would guess that a web browser is opened with the content of a php file displayed. I have set the path to my External Web Server Path to localhost:8080 (Tomcat 5.5.20) because I want to test stuff locally but all it returns is the error "Could not bind socket: Address and Port already in Use".
Is there any documentation anywhere describing how to configure dev-php and how it works? I have searched extensively and can find nothing. The php-dev help system does not work, it requests that you "set the PHP Documentation settings in Options > Extra". But what do you set in there.. nothing is explained. There fields for PHP, ADOdb, CSS, PHPGTK and a combo box CHM. What do all these mean?
Does anything actually work in dev-PHP or is it a total waste of time?
Thanks.
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> What is supposed to happen when you select the Internal Preview tab ?
Dev-PHP is supposed to launch its internal web server and give it the current file, in editor sheet, to run.
> CGIRunner Process was terminated
This is often coming from a low timeout (Options » General Options : Web server - timeout) 10000 is a common value.
> What is supposed to happen when you select the External Preview tab ?
Dev-PHP is supposed to launch a msie (internet explorer) and give it control with the real uri : based upon an external server (with a connection to the Internet).
> There are fields for PHP, ADOdb, CSS, PHPGTK and a combo box CHM. What do all these mean ?
When user press the <F1> key inside an editor sheet, Dev-PHP is supposed to give a contextual help on a word (either selected word, or where the caret is). At this time this works only for PHP. The combo box reports where to download the corresponding compiled html file : select the object (say php), then click on the <Download it> link. After downloading, fill in the corresponding path in the grid above the combo, and in case of PHP don't forget to select the language of the chm.
For the moment, other chm are used in association with the Help tab. This help tab is included (and draggable) in a pane (generally on the left) named 'sidebar' ; <F2> key is experimental - it works like <F1>, but starts a search into a file named 'multiCHM.xml', then whenever a topic is found, draws (in the documentation sheet) the corresponding topic extracted from one of the help files.
> Does anything actually work in dev-PHP or is it a total waste of time ?
1- Our home page http://devphp.sf.net/ gives some other links - see ( Curriculum PHP ;)
2- Thank you for the time you spent to report
3- In my opinion, the portable version could be a better response, because it's coming with some functional environments http://downloads.sourceforge.net/devphp/Dev-PHP_usb_2_1_2.exe
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The version I have is 2.0.13 test. I have been trying to do something useful with it for some weeks now and just don't seem to be able to get started. Because I live in a backward part of europe and only have very slow dial-up I really need something to help me prototype on the local machine.
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> really need something to help me prototype on the local machine
What does _something_ mean ?
- PHP which version, Xdebug (yes/no),
- DB engine : mySql, postgreSql, ...
- Other libraries...
- Browser : firefox, mozilla, msie, ...
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What is supposed to happen when you select the Internal Preview tab? At the moment I get two tabs "Messages" and "Source" at the bottom of what is presumably a message area pane, followed some seconds by a message "CGIRunner Process was terminated".
What is supposed to happen when you select the External Preview tab? I would guess that a web browser is opened with the content of a php file displayed. I have set the path to my External Web Server Path to localhost:8080 (Tomcat 5.5.20) because I want to test stuff locally but all it returns is the error "Could not bind socket: Address and Port already in Use".
Is there any documentation anywhere describing how to configure dev-php and how it works? I have searched extensively and can find nothing. The php-dev help system does not work, it requests that you "set the PHP Documentation settings in Options > Extra". But what do you set in there.. nothing is explained. There fields for PHP, ADOdb, CSS, PHPGTK and a combo box CHM. What do all these mean?
Does anything actually work in dev-PHP or is it a total waste of time?
Thanks.
Hi,
Could you report the downloaded version, please ?
> What is supposed to happen when you select the Internal Preview tab ?
Dev-PHP is supposed to launch its internal web server and give it the current file, in editor sheet, to run.
> CGIRunner Process was terminated
This is often coming from a low timeout (Options » General Options : Web server - timeout) 10000 is a common value.
> What is supposed to happen when you select the External Preview tab ?
Dev-PHP is supposed to launch a msie (internet explorer) and give it control with the real uri : based upon an external server (with a connection to the Internet).
> Is there any documentation anywhere describing how to configure dev-php and how it works ?
Well, this is in progress...
http://pierre.fauconnier.free.fr/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=DevphpEn
http://pierre.fauconnier.free.fr/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=DevphpEnProjects
> There are fields for PHP, ADOdb, CSS, PHPGTK and a combo box CHM. What do all these mean ?
When user press the <F1> key inside an editor sheet, Dev-PHP is supposed to give a contextual help on a word (either selected word, or where the caret is). At this time this works only for PHP. The combo box reports where to download the corresponding compiled html file : select the object (say php), then click on the <Download it> link. After downloading, fill in the corresponding path in the grid above the combo, and in case of PHP don't forget to select the language of the chm.
For the moment, other chm are used in association with the Help tab. This help tab is included (and draggable) in a pane (generally on the left) named 'sidebar' ; <F2> key is experimental - it works like <F1>, but starts a search into a file named 'multiCHM.xml', then whenever a topic is found, draws (in the documentation sheet) the corresponding topic extracted from one of the help files.
> Does anything actually work in dev-PHP or is it a total waste of time ?
1- Our home page http://devphp.sf.net/ gives some other links - see ( Curriculum PHP ;)
2- Thank you for the time you spent to report
3- In my opinion, the portable version could be a better response, because it's coming with some functional environments
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/devphp/Dev-PHP_usb_2_1_2.exe
The version I have is 2.0.13 test. I have been trying to do something useful with it for some weeks now and just don't seem to be able to get started. Because I live in a backward part of europe and only have very slow dial-up I really need something to help me prototype on the local machine.
> 2.0.13 test
Newest is 2.2.0.290 http://devphp.sf.net/2.0/devphp2.exe [1.41 MB] (exe only)
> very slow dialup
I understand. Bandwidth ?
> really need something to help me prototype on the local machine
What does _something_ mean ?
- PHP which version, Xdebug (yes/no),
- DB engine : mySql, postgreSql, ...
- Other libraries...
- Browser : firefox, mozilla, msie, ...