Software development tools and software selection

Commonly used editing software: notepad. To improve efficiency, professional tools such as UtraEdit and DreamWeaver are often used. FrontPage is not recommended (it does not support PHP well ).

Programming, software development tools and software selection

(1) related tools and software

These tools are used to compile and modify source program files. Our source program files are all ASCII files (plain text files), so any tool software that can process plain text can be used.

Commonly used editing software: notepad. To improve efficiency, professional tools such as UtraEdit and DreamWeaver are often used. FrontPage is not recommended (it does not support PHP well ).

Notepad: used for simple code editing.

UltraEdit10 simplified Chinese version: short and concise, powerful code editing, and powerful programming tool

Dreamweaver MX Chinese version: graphical editing environment, slow speed, many functions, commonly used in complex Web design and website management.

Note that the software provides three views: "Code", "code/design", and "design". The "code" view is provided for editing and use by users in the form of source code, it is often used to write and modify code (server-side code or client code). The "design" view is visualized for users, and is often used to design web interfaces, to reduce the workload of manually writing client code. The "code/design" view is a combination of the above two methods.

(2) no matter which tool or software is used to compile the source program file, if the file contains PHP code, ensure that the file extension is consistent with the setting of the PHP file extension in Apache configuration; if PHP code is not included:

If only the HTML code is included, the extension .htm is generally used;

If only the javascriptcode is included, this file is usually used as a. HTM file inclusion File (Reference File, similar to the header file in the C program file) generally with. js as the extension;

If the extension contains HTML code and javascriptcode, the extension is generally .htm.

(3) the use of development tools and software is easy to use and can be mastered by users with a little learning experience. For Dreamweaver, the operation is similar to WORD. In addition, it comes with a learning tutorial, you can refer.