Hello,
two things about the built-in web-server. First i have a question, is the "refresh" button the only way to update the preview when previewing PHP (with the built-in web-server)?
I would like to have a hotkey, which i could not find. Or have the preview updated when i save the document via Ctrl+S.
Secondly i want to know if anybody else had a strange behavior with the built-in web-server? For me it wants to download the PHP file when i update the preview (IE preview) with the button. But when i switch to another view ("Code editor", "Horizontal Preview, "Vertical Preview") it works as expected and the refresh button then also works for a while. Its not that bad but i would be glad to get this fixed.
Best regards.
Built-In Web-server refresh
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Re: Built-In Web-server refresh
Grandmaster B wrote: Secondly i want to know if anybody else had a strange behavior with the built-in web-server? For me it wants to download the PHP file when i update the preview (IE preview) with the button. But when i switch to another view ("Code editor", "Horizontal Preview, "Vertical Preview") it works as expected and the refresh button then also works for a while. Its not that bad but i would be glad to get this fixed.
Exactly the same behavior i found a couple of times.
Becase all that problems, i decide to work in a realserver on the web and use FTP to upload the page... then i found some problems working with queries (?searc0something&other=blabla), etc.
Webuilder is very nice and helpfull (the best i found), but need some bug correction or redesign of the internal viewer to be more helpfull when coding php i guess.
Also, as i post in the wish forum, have tabs in the internal viewer when coding php could make the difference.
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Grandmaster B
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Re: Built-In Web-server refresh
Thanks for your response. If you have the same problem, for the record, what OS do you have? Mine is Win7-x64.
I agree, its the best web-editor i found too. It would be such a dream if the internal preview of PHP pages would work flawless.
I also found that i can not preview pages i opened from FTP, is this right?
We may not expect this to be fixed soon as they seem to be busy with the 2011 version but i hope this problem will be recognized by the devs.
I agree, its the best web-editor i found too. It would be such a dream if the internal preview of PHP pages would work flawless.
I also found that i can not preview pages i opened from FTP, is this right?
We may not expect this to be fixed soon as they seem to be busy with the 2011 version but i hope this problem will be recognized by the devs.
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Grandmaster B
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Re: Built-In Web-server refresh
UPDATE: At work, i installed the recommended PHP package from Blumentals (http://www.blumentals.net/download/php.php).
Here preview of pages opened from FTP work... and i also did not have the "download" issue so far. Maybe it's just a misconfiguration, i'll try that at home later.
Here preview of pages opened from FTP work... and i also did not have the "download" issue so far. Maybe it's just a misconfiguration, i'll try that at home later.
Re: Built-In Web-server refresh
W7 32 here.
With FTP files, to preview i use the real url, but was not that friendly neither.
I dont use the local PHP for uploaded files since they use MySQL at the server.
Iknow that some issues are because IE, so i switch to mozilla for the preview. However the address bar was not very friendly since i found some problems to use with queries.
My problem with the address bar is that it does not act like an standard address bar (cloud be nice to switch to that option somehow).
Imagine this scenario:
Im coding in PHP a page that does get the referral url to do something.
Then i try to navigate to a different domain to then click a link to the page im coding to see if my php code is working fine getting the refferal... well, i found difficult to acomplish that in webuilder, because i haven found an option to be able to navigate to test some part of my php codes, etc. (What i was really testing was some friendly urls, and was difficult to test them in the internal viewer)
Its not THAT important, im happy with webuilder, but if i can make some whishes, this will be one of my first ones: the php testing and preview.
With FTP files, to preview i use the real url, but was not that friendly neither.
I dont use the local PHP for uploaded files since they use MySQL at the server.
Iknow that some issues are because IE, so i switch to mozilla for the preview. However the address bar was not very friendly since i found some problems to use with queries.
My problem with the address bar is that it does not act like an standard address bar (cloud be nice to switch to that option somehow).
Imagine this scenario:
Im coding in PHP a page that does get the referral url to do something.
Then i try to navigate to a different domain to then click a link to the page im coding to see if my php code is working fine getting the refferal... well, i found difficult to acomplish that in webuilder, because i haven found an option to be able to navigate to test some part of my php codes, etc. (What i was really testing was some friendly urls, and was difficult to test them in the internal viewer)
Its not THAT important, im happy with webuilder, but if i can make some whishes, this will be one of my first ones: the php testing and preview.
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Grandmaster B
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Re: Built-In Web-server refresh
I see, i believe they use a ActiveX control for the preview. From what i know its rather difficult to use. But maybe there is hope...
However, to our problem mentioned above. I reinstalled WeBuilder on my laptop (erasing all settings when uninstalling). To be safe i installed to C:/WeBuilder (and the recommended PHP package in C:/PHP). In the first-start wizard i only set the path to the PHP.exe and leaved the other options untouched. Now, so far, previewing PHP files works without problems!
Can't say what did the trick tho. The "Document root folder" and the "Temporary folder" are empty now (which is ok, since they are optional). I had them set to "c:/htdocs" and i also tried "c:/htdocs/temp" for the temporary folder once.
However, to our problem mentioned above. I reinstalled WeBuilder on my laptop (erasing all settings when uninstalling). To be safe i installed to C:/WeBuilder (and the recommended PHP package in C:/PHP). In the first-start wizard i only set the path to the PHP.exe and leaved the other options untouched. Now, so far, previewing PHP files works without problems!
Can't say what did the trick tho. The "Document root folder" and the "Temporary folder" are empty now (which is ok, since they are optional). I had them set to "c:/htdocs" and i also tried "c:/htdocs/temp" for the temporary folder once.