>Uh, you didn't answer the question I asked. Do you have to type it in? I wouldn't want to code ASP.NET by hand in HTML, either.
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>OK, so you're interested in PHP IDEs to avoid coding everything by hand? Sorry, when you said the code was godawful I assumed you were disagreeing with my point about its obviousness.
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>I googled "php ide" and found this: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-ide/index.html . There are *heaps* of plugins to automatically create stubs for SQL access as well.
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>There is also GUI stuff for Dremweaver as Dragan mentioned- e.g. http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Free-Products/PHAkt/Overview/
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>All I'm suggesting is that it's *easy* to take a look at this stuff. I'm not holding myself out as a guru and nor have I made a decision yet (unlike others, it would seem ;-) ) so if people are interested, don't ask me, just take a look.


Fair enough. All I meant was it didn't sound particularly user friendly.