Re: [ossig] What's Wrong With VB ?

["Raja Iskandar Shah" <ris.riscniaga@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks. noted that problem about mixing codes and presentations, most of
the popular php applications, used php, css and jsp. needed to use
jscript to have a richer interface - e.g. for simple data validation -
why waste processor and network resources, just to check whether there
is data in a required input box ?

i am still new in web based applications - and there is a lot of
difference compared to the conventional fat client - server. the
conventional architecture for accounting software is fat client - there
is a whole lot of data relationships, validation, selection, etc going
on, even on a simple invoice form. so i am still comparing between the 2
architecture.


incidently was very intrigued by the jface development. but knowing
java, i will probably be stuck in an endless cycle of technology.


Raja Iskandar Shah
http://riscniaga.netfirms.com
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 12:09 +0800, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote:

> Now I am trying out php, I needed to move
> to web-based applications anyway. Still searching for a good visual
> WYSIWYG IDE. If there are WYSIWYG HTML editors, why can't there be
> WYSIWYG php editors ?

This is the dangerous thinking that PHP introduces, with mixing content
with presentation. php outputs html, but php + html together with
WYSYIWG IDE is bad practice. Except for very simple applications, it
will start to become a mess. Whenever possible always seperate
programming logic (php) from presentation (html/xhtml).

What you should do is:

Program logic/content in gui editor like Quanta, phpEclipse, Zend IDE
etc. Then visually design some output templates in Dreamweaver, using
your own, or something like phptal or smarty.
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