Dreamweaver Studio 8 and PHP

[makaiman]

Is there a way I can view PHP pages in design view to manipulate content if one is not fluent in coding? Is that possible within Studio 8? The same applies to Drupal, if I could use design view or something to see the pages that are done in PHP to manipulate content within for example, a CMS...

Thank you...

[Lawrence_Cramer]

Well, you can manipulate the HTML elements of the page. That said... depending on the complexity of the code, especially if a lot of the presentation is dependant on code variables, things can begin to get pretty dicey, and it becomes more and more likely that you'll inadvertently mess up the PHP while trying to edit the HTML.

This is exactly the case with most all CMS apps.  Drupal, joomla, wordpress, all of these take specialized skills to design well. The all rely on a "skinning" set up and you can't just open a page and start editing.  most CMS tools have one thing in common... Easy content management, difficult or convoluted design.

So, you are probably looking at a serious learning curve if you are wanting to design CMS sites.  The good news is this is not time wasted. A good CSM designer is always in demand!

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