RAPIDPHP2011/11.21/Window7: Preview and other Problems

[jobowo]

To complete the technology description: I'm running the above on a Toshiba Laptop. I'm using Apache 2.4 as an external webserver. I have used the internal webserver as well and it doesn't change the problems. Have IE9 installed. Using ZoneAlarm firewall with ZA [Kaspersky] a-v.

Problems:
(1)When I change the [PHP] script, the preview sometimes doesn't refresh. This is exasperating because I don't know when it has refreshed and when it hasn't so I can't rely on the output showing me what is real. This forces me over to using IE, where I get the same problem but the problem with IE is obviously that it is fetching from the cache and clearing the cache solves the problem. I suspect that since RPHP uses IE for previewing that it is tied in to that except that in RPHP preview, as far as I know, I can't clear the cache (or can I?)

(2) In the last couple of days I've been getting weird symptoms with preview: (A) Javascript error messages that I don't get when I run the script in IE and don't seem to relate to the lines indicated (B) Suddenly RPHP is taking a minute or more to load.

Yes, I've suspected a corruption and tried re-installing. No change.

Yes, I was considering an upgrade to 2014 but need to know that this problem is going to disappear with the upgrade as I have no other real needs.

[Aivars]

Regarding Cache problem, just go to Internet Explorer settings and set it to Cache less aggressively.
Regarding JavaScript errors - see if you have turned on Code-preview synchronization and try turning it off.
I can't imagine why startup would take so long though. For experiment you might want to create a new blank project, switch to it and then try restarting.

You can try evaluating 2014 next to 2011 you're currently using.

- it has "Refresh" command that can be set to F5 key and will refresh both preview tab and preview window;
- it has Chrome preview which internally has command "ignore cache and refresh" and we're using it;

[jobowo]

Thanks Aviars for your suggestions.

Immediately after my post I downloaded RPHP2014 and am evaluating it. There seem to be some improvements:

- Couldn't find any tools in IE to "cache less aggressively".
- But did find the preview refresh button in 2014 and it did the trick (problem 1 above is recurring in 2014 but the refresh resolves it).
- Haven't re-encountered the javascript errors. This may mean that 2014 is more stable?

FYI have found a few quirks in 2014:

- In code explorer, variable references with parentheses are sometimes shown with only the right parenthesis
- Clicking 'Help' takes one to the WebBuilder documentation and I could find no way of getting to RPHP documentation. Even if they are similar I
would hope that RPHP users would have access to specific documentation for their product.
- I keep finding blanks inserted inside my parentheses. So function () will appear as function( ) or function(varname) as function(varname ). I could see that happening occasionally because of my typos but it has never been a common mistake of mine so am getting suspicious.

Again, thanks for the help. Will continue to evaluate 2014.

[Aivars]

Rapid PHP help is here: http://help.blumentals.net/rapidphp/ - I'll add to the list that the URL needs to be fixed.
If you have reproducible cases of the space problem or reference problem, let us know so we can verify and fix them.