On Thu, January 19, 2006 4:02 pm, Jedidiah wrote: > I mentioned earlier that I recently switched my site over to PHP. I > had a > couple of reasons for this: > > 1: I was using Server Side Includes, and had been told that PHP > includes > were better and definitely more popular. > > 2: I began sending out a newsletter which was written by someone else > in > PHP. > > I am beginning to wonder if this was a good idea. I can no longer > preview > my pages without uploading the files to the server. This can really > become > a problem when I am making slight formatting changes to my CSS file > where I > need to refresh the page every few seconds until I get the look just > right. > > Is it really worth changing all the files to PHP files and using > includes? > Is there any way around this, or am I stuck uploading?? Several options spring to mind. #1. Install Apache (free) and PHP (free) and MySQL (free) on your desktop where you build your pages. You'll have your own little Intranet with one (1) server (your computer) and one client (your comupter) and one user (you). You can then test to your heart's content all kinds of fun stuff in your page and have no worry that anybody but you will be affected. This is a pretty standard development model. Most PHP developers do this because it's quite easy, and you can then work with any new technology you want without worrying about it crashing the real server. If you have a laptop, you can also then work anywhere at all. #2. Consider using a template library such as Smarty so that your Template files can be viewed/edited independently of the program logic, so that CSS changes aren't affected as much by PHP, and you MIGHT be able to skip #1... But you probably shouldn't. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
