My client wants to use FrontPage

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My client wants to use FrontPage

I need to know if FrontPage kills server-side scripting

pixeltierra

12:18 am on Jul 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

As is the case with many WYSISYG editors, they kill perfectly good scripting code by forcing the page to correspond to a static html page.

For example the following

<?php include('../file/top.php');?>

<h1>Header</h1>
<p>a bunch of stuff</p>
<p>a bunch of stuff</p>

<?php include('../file/bottom.php');?>

will get turned into:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Header</h1>
<p>a bunch of stuff</p>
<p>a bunch of stuff</p>

</body>
</html>

Does anyone know if FrontPage has this annoying habit?

jessejump

3:37 pm on Jul 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

I just searched google for FP and php and found pages on Microsoft site and many others

jimbeetle

4:13 pm on Jul 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

annoying habit?

It isn't a matter of it being an annoying habit, it's a matter of it being a different technology. PHP has a way to include pages, Frontpage has a way to include pages. If your client wants to use FP, then it's probably best to use the FP technologies otherwise the client won't be able to use other FP features.

Now, you can use PHP in FP, just configure your .htaccess to parse .htm or .html pages. Grab a copy of the PHP Rocket plug-in for FP and you can develop on your local machine. But then you'll wind up using FP as just a handy-dandy code editor, defeating the client's purpose.

awells527

3:50 am on Jul 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

I use FP for all of my websites that use PHP almost exclusively. It doesn't mess with my code when I use includes just like you posted.