Dreamweaver UPGRADE: PHP 7.4 / PHP 8?

[madiko]

Dear Adobe DreamWeaver-Team,

currently it is only possible to select PHP 7.1 in the preferences.

When can we hope to select 7.4 and 8?

Many thanks!

Best regards from Germany,

madiko

// currently using: DreamWeaver 21.2

[osgood_]

Dear Adobe DreamWeaver-Team,

currently it is only possible to select PHP 7.1 in the preferences.

When can we hope to select 7.4 and 8?

Many thanks!

By @madiko

Never I suspect. Dreamweaver is minimally maintained now, only bug fixes and OS updates are planned for the future. 

Its probably a good idea, considering the amount of similar questions concerning the future of Dreamweaver to have a significant 'sticky' at the top of the forum relating to the current status of the program.

[Nancy OShea]

No.  Dreamweaver is only minimally maintain now.  No new features are planned.

If you want to use modern code, do it.  There's nothing preventing you from using modern code in Code View if that's what your project requires.

[madiko]

Thank you very much for your fast answer(s), @osgood_ and @Nancy OShea.

So it seems, I have to consider a new tool. *sigh

[Nancy OShea]

I still use Dreamweaver alonside other coding tools like FileZilla S/FTP client and Visual Studio Code.

PHP IDES:

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Eclipse

Rapid PHP

Code Lobster

PHP Storm

Zend Studio

[B i r n o u]

to add to what @Nancy OShea proposes, and depending on what you expect on PHP development, VSC is not so bad on that https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/php

[BenPleysier]

to add to the above two replies, I use Wappler

[Paul-M]

I don’t think this is going to happen, I have asked the same question a couple of times...

[PMisPM]

So Dreamweaver is leaving us soon? Going the way of Muse? Really? I'd like to hear an answer on that directly from Adobe.

Clues are there: there's no Dreamweaver version beyond 21.3.0 available via CC updates (that's DW version 2021, a.k.a. "21.3.0.15593" on my M2 Mac –– and that's as far as you can go on uploads). PHP 8 is not available either and my host is going to PHP 8 in a few days and not supporting anything less.

I gave up typing HTML, etc. line by line a long time ago and got Dreamweaver instead (my fingers wore out doing line-by-line coding). Somebody please let me know if  DW is dying and it's really going to be time to use a new tool.

Good luck to all.

P.M.

[Nancy OShea]

Not true.  Nobody has announced publicly or privately that Dreamweaver is going away.  That's a total myth.

Here's what we actually know:

In Fall of 2021, the Dreamweaver team announced that no new features were being planned for Dreamweaver.  It is being minimally maintained now with occasional security & compatibility updates.  That's it. 

Dreamweaver will continue to be maintained for the benefit of legacy users.  But don't expect any new feature enhancements. 

Dreamweaver still works well for most things and you can continue  using it alongside  your other favorite web tools the same as you always have.

I hope that clarifies the situation.

[PMisPM]

So many clues there in your reply though. Deja vu all over again.

[osgood_]

So many clues there in your reply though. Deja vu all over again.

By @PMisPM

'You can fool some of the people some of the time BUT NOT all of the people all of the time'.

[madiko]

Hello there, it's true, you might use DreamViewer further on. But I wouldn't advise it.

During the last weeks I updated all my code from PHP7.4 to PHP8.2. I really was happy to rely on VSCode to mark all the depricated and discontinued code.

You might test it: https://code.visualstudio.com
(additionally I kindly reccomend to add the extension Intelephense, that makes you live even easier because you not only get direct feedback by mistakes and bugs, you also get a good hint what to change to get it right. More info here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client)

Alternatively you might test PHPStorm:
https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download/other.html

As far es I know, these are currently the best IDEs for your descriped purpose.

Good success!

[osgood_]

Alternatively you might test PHPStorm:
https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download/other.html

As far es I know, these are currently the best IDEs for your descriped purpose.

Good success!

By @madiko

I would second that. Php Storm is the only IDE I use now for php development. If you use something else for the back-end like node.js then I think Web-Storm from the same company has you covered.

VSC is very very good but its like everybody is using it these days............I like to be different for the hell of it and PHP Storm/Web Storm are great alternatives, although they are NOT free, but reasonably priced, I think.