Writing PHP code and testing it on-the-fly can be a real hassle but this offering from DzSoft promises to ease the pain of coding by acting as a virtual server that can process code and display the results.

DzSoft PHP Editor is primarily a code editor, and includes the majority of features that you’d expect from this type of software. However, while most rival code editors tend to generalize, offering syntax highlighting for a multitude of languages PHP Editor is specifically tuned to the needs of web programmers who are working with the Hypertext Preprocessor language. Evidence of this can be found in the inclusion of common code and functions libraries and the ability to run and preview your work.

At first glance the program doesn’t appear to have a particularly intuitive interface. The design wouldn’t be out of place in Windows 95 and the main editor window is a typical reproduction of Notepad with each line numbered for easy reference. What appears to be a navigation bar on the left offers some hope of functionality, and once you get stuck in to coding it really delivers. The explorer bar tracks everything and records the location of each include, function, variable, and class you use. Should you wish to specifically save a reference point you can add up to nine bookmarks, although you can’t assign names to them - an addition that would have helped clarify what function each snippet serves.

To use the run and preview feature you must install PHP on your PC, a simple operation when compared to setting up your computer as a server that can process PHP. With a syntax check also included, this tool comes highly recommended to anyone that will be writing significant bodies of PHP. DzSoft PHP Editor may be a little rough around the edges, but with its outstanding functionality, that can be forgiven.

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The OverSite application allows you to easy define your web site's hierarchy. Create sections and subsections, and fill them with pages. Rearrange your structure with OverSite's easy drag-and-drop interface. Tag sections and pages as multi-page templates, user-entry forms, external site content, and password-protected content.

Automatically generate a graphical map of your site, and test your site's interactivity with OverSite's automated click-thru screen. And once you're done, you can export your site structure into real files and folders to help you hit the ground in building your site.

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GIF Animation has changed the face of the Web, and all you need to build these GIF "movies" is GIF Movie Gear, a professional quality, award-winning, powerful and easy-to-use tool for building, perfecting and optimizing GIF animations.

By relying on substance instead of hype, GIF Movie Gear makes GIF animation building quick and easy. It is not a bloated, slow, complicated app that is a chore to use. What it is is small, fast, and efficient. It gives you the tools you need to get the job done cleanly and effectively. The superior interface shows all the frames of the animation at once, making it easy to see what you are working on. Top quality optimization and color reduction functions keep your file sizes down. Fine-tuning of timing, transparency, cropping, sizing and color palettes is trivial. A variety of import/export options, including GIF, AVI, BMP, JPEG, ICO, PNG and layered Photoshop PSD files, support most common image formats. And the built-in tutorial helps you get started in no time.

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SQLyog is an easy-to-use, compact and very fast graphical tool to manage your MySQL database anywhere in the world. There are a number of features designed to help you speed up your database development.

Top tools include:

• Shortcuts to quickly generate SQL statements and paste object names
• Learn MySQL by looking at the SQL generated by SQLyog
• Multi-tab query editor and result-set editor
• Multiple Query Execution
• Multi-threaded query execution with option to stop long running queries
• SQL templates
• Excel-style grid interface to view/update resultsets
• Multi-format blob editor
• View data in grid/text mode
• Support for all MySQL table handlers

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Web Site Maestro is recommended if you manage more than one web site and/or you need extras like tag and link checking, plus instant uploading and other FTP facilities. The application runs a number of checks and processes on your code, helping to speed up your web site and make sure everything works.

The program checks the tagged pair structure of your site, the validity of your hyperlinks, and also allows you to convert special characters within the ASCII 128 - 255 range to their appropriate # notation.

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If you find that your programming development tool doesn't exactly make life easy for you, you may be pleasantly surprised by RJ TextEd. It's basically a web development tool and a Unicode text editor which aims to make HTML coding simpler, faster and more intuitive.

Some of the key features are syntax error highlighting, auto completion and a very handy CSS editor. One rather unusual feature is that RJ TextEd includes an FTP client that enables you to get your coding published super quick although it's not exactly an advanced client and if you need secure connections, you're probably best not to rely on it.

For those that are relatively new to coding, another handy feature is the HTML validation tool which allows you to format and repair your code using wizards. Finally, it also includes spell checking, e-mail support and advanced search options. The remarkable thing is that this is all entirely free although the downside is that it won't support all coding languages so if you frequently use different ones, you'll need something more flexible.

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PE Explorer is the most feature-packed tool for inspecting the inner workings of PE files (EXE, DLL, ActiveX controls, and several other Windows executable formats). It offers a thorough look at PE file structure and all of the resources in the file, and tells you just about every little detail you could possibly want to know about a PE file.

PE Explorer comes with a Visual Resource Editor, PE Header Viewer, UPX Unpacker, Exported/Imported API Function Viewer, API Function Syntax Lookup, Dependency Scanner, and powerful Disassembler. The product allows you to peek inside Delphi applications and edit the properties of controls on Delphi forms within the PE file. Once inside, file structure can be analyzed and optimized, problems diagnosed, changes made and resources repaired.

Whether you are an advanced computer user just wondered what makes an executable file tick, or software developer suffered from hard-to-find program bugs, PE Explorer is the software solution that will make it easy to find the answers. With PE Explorer you can view, edit and repair the internal structures of PE files with the click of a button.

It works with PE formats such as EXE, DLL, MSSTYLES, SYS, OCX, SCR and other win32 executables. Support for custom plug-ins. Use it for serious development projects, for restoring lost information, for keeping damaged files intact, for determination of the existence of viruses or malicious code in the programs, to reverse engineer projects with missing source code, to view the imports/exports of the standard dll's, or to simply reduce the numerous internal information sources of PE files into a more convenient viewing format and save your valuable time. The possibilities are up to you. PE Explorer gives you an easy to use point and click approach from which to operate.

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AllWebMenus is a DHMTL menu/Javascript menu builder for web navigation that requires absolutely no DHTML or Javascript experience. It creates any cross-browser, pop-up or drop-down web menu that works alike in all browsers supporting DHTML held by all popular platforms (PC, MAC, Unix).

DHTML/JavaScript menus are designed with a tree-like approach. Users can tailor their menus by using the Properties Pane or by choosing from a series of predefined themes from the Theme Gallery. The menu can be either vertical or horizontal (pop-up or drop-down menu), it can be movable, stay visible while scrolling, contain static or animated images, borders, colors, and much more. Once everything is set, you can use the Link Menu to Web Page command to link the menu to your Web page in a fast and easy manner.

AllWebMenus offers:

• New ready-to-use Themes
• Optimized Style Editor
• Creation and saving of customized Themes
• Free Dreamweaver extension and NetObjects Fusion component
• Import FrontPage Navigation Structures
• Support for .JPG, .GIF and .PNG image files.
• UNDO/REDO function
• Right-to-Left language support (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.)
• Non-English font support
• Optimized menu building process with separate javascripts for different browsers
• Use menus over flash objects, form elements, applets and iframes
• Use multiple menus in the same page
• Create popup, hidden, horizontal and vertical menus
• Free Sitemap generator based on the menu structure
• Specify optional Javascript Commands

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If you put a lot of work into your website or blog, you'll want to know the most detailed information about how its doing.

CNStats STD (CNStats Standard) is a flexible and versatile system for the accumulation and analysis of website statistics. The program offers more than 50 basic reports available via a web-interface. In addition CNStats STD works with any hosting company which supports MySQL and PHP which let's face it, is just about all of them! This program is great for those who want to look in depth at their visitors behaviour at a glance as everything is presented in graph form and detail. It allows you to evaluate your advertising effectiveness and also gauge exactly how and when people are finding your site. The program is extremely easy to install and to set up, and it counts all visitors to your site although annoyingly, this seems to include yourself and I couldn't work out how to switch this off so that should have been made a lot clearer. There also seemed to be a lack of options for exporting data to Word or Excel format which doesn't really make saving your data very convenient.

Nevertheless, this is an easy to use and intuitive stats package that will give you a much better idea of your website's performance.

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Adobe's new cross-operating system runtime opens up much more possibilities to both developers and everyday computer users. It allows developers to create new web applications using HTML, XML, Javascript and Flex. What's more they aren't limited to using Adobe's library, but can create, share and use their own to create specific web applications.

For users, it gives access to new and exciting rich internet applications (RIA) which can be run straight from their desktop. These use very little memory, are usually quick to launch and execute and have very smooth animations. A quick visit to the Adobe Showcase Gallery and you get an idea of the sort of applications that are being developed for AIR: a Google Analytics Reporting Suite, a Twitter desktop client, a movie discovery tool and much, much more. The possibilities are endless and really depend on the creativity of developers.

While I've had some errors with AIR, especially when installing new apps, I'm overall very impressed with it. Quietly but surely, we're seeing more and more exciting web applications being developed. Install AIR to be part of the web applications revolution!

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Add professional scripts in your web site to process HTML forms and send the field values via email with no knowledge of programming. Scripts can be in PHP, ASP or Perl language. Forms To Go is a very simple and powerful application that creates scripts in PHP, ASP and Perl to process your HTML forms, and send all the form's field values via email or save them in a text file on your server.

Forms To Go has been created with the web designer in mind. No programming knowledge is necessary, just the basic information about your server configuration. This can be obtained from your system administrator or web hosting provider, then you'll be ready to create the script to process your form.

Recently, a new form of spam has been targeting HTML forms by triggering the scripts that process them, and overloading the mailbox of the HTML form's owner. Forms To Go script is secure against this. If some words are included in any field value, use the Stop Word Filter option by selecting the forbidden words in order to limit the script execution.

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FlowChart.NET is a .NET programming component, which provides professional diagraming and charting capabilities to any software written in C#, VB.NET or Delphi.NET. The control is easy to integrate into your applications and requires minimal programming efforts from your side.

You can quickly learn to use FlowChart.NET thanks to the detailed documentation and the examples available in a variety of programming languages. FlowChart.NET offers numerous features, which range from XML serialization and path-finding to automatic layout algorithms.

FlowChart.NET gives graphical presentation to:

• Workflow processes
• Object hierarchies and relationships
• Graphs and networks
• Entity-relationship/database diagrams
• IVR systems
• Industrial automation processes
• Genealogy trees
• Algorithms and flowcharts
• Organizational charts
• XML documents
• Classification hierarchies

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Complete dhtml menus can be built, in a matter of minutes, without writing a single line of code. No special plugins and no programming or HTML knowledge required, with just DHTML Menu Builder you'll be able to create great looking and functional dhtml menus for all your web sites.

DHTML Menu Builder generated drop down menus code is 100% compatible with, Internet Explorer 4 and above, all Mozilla-based browsers such as FireFox 1.0 and 1.5, Netscape Navigator 4 and above, Opera 7 and 8, Safari and Konqueror under Windows, OS/2, Mac and Linux. The interface is unique and highly intuitive so all your work is to concentrate in the design of the structure of your pull-down menus.

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This is a template-based WYSIWYG application for developing Flash-menu headers and Flash-based Web sites without the need for coding.

Using A4Desk and its template gallery, you can build Flash menus and Web sites in minutes with only a few mouse clicks and keystrokes.

Its other features include background sound support, the switching of background and border colors, and the uploading of images for sub-pages and for changing Flash display sizes.

For those who'd like to get into Flash design but are intimidated by the technicalities, this is the perfect way to get started.

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Simpedit could be taken as a simple Windows Notepad replacement, but it's really more than that. It's a complete coding editor with support for a handful of programming languages.

The program does keep the same simplicity as the Notepad, but only in appearance. When working with source code, you'll have a wide selection of tools at your fingertips. Besides the basic edition options (copy, paste, search, replace) you'll get special options for optimizing the management of HTML source code, working with online forms and more.

Simpedit makes coding more comfortable thanks to a highlighted cursor line and the use of a color code for different programming languages, although this one is not automatically applied and you have to select it from the Tools menu. As extra features, Simpedit has an "Autocorrection" option and can encrypt your code with the Twofish method.

Simpedit is a simple yet very handy source code editor with support for a wide selection of programming languages.

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WebLog Expert is a feature rich web server log analyzer. It will give you information about your site's visitors: activity statistics, file access statistics, paths through site, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, errors, and more. WebLog Expert can analyze logs of Apache and IIS web servers. It can even read GZ and ZIP compressed logs so you won't need to unpack them manually.

The log analyzer features intuitive interface. Built-in wizards will help you quickly and easily create a profile for your site and analyze it. Flexible system of filters provides an ability to carry out deep analysis of visitors' activity. Use the filters to separate or filter out individual log entries and visitors. For example you can get information about visitors who accessed a specific page or came from a specific URL.

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Google is aiming to create a shake-up in mobile phone operating systems with the launch of its Android platform. Designed to be completely open and free for developers, the API could change the way mobile phone software is used, making all applications equal and combining phone-based data with web tools.

The Android SDK gives mobile software developers the chance to play around with the new platform. It contains everything you need to start building applications, as well as a fully functional device emulator for testing them out when you've finished.

Even non-developers can try out the emulator, as it's easy to set up and run (it does take a while to load up, mind you). There is a choice of phone skins and resolutions to tinker with too. After fiddling around for a bit with the OS I must say I'm pretty impressed. Its integration with Google Maps is seamless and only shows to highlight the potential for development of apps that blur the boundaries between phone and web-based software.

Installing software onto the emulator isn't easy and you need to fiddle around with code in order to do so. Although, there's plenty of documentation available online to help you get the most from the SDK, this is still really only something mobile developers will get much use out of, rather than just those curious about how Android applications will look.

Overall though, Android SDK provides a fast and reliable development environment for those looking towards the next era of mobile software.

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Create customizable DHTML popups for your website without the need to write a single line of javascript/DHTML code, using an intuitive interface and a range of templates. DHTML popups are the wave of the future for websites and content sites and Advanced DHTML Popup is the technology leader for DHTML popup design. Join the hundreds of web developers that have used Advanced DHTML Popup for their web design needs.

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ESF Database Convert allows you to easily and quickly convert between various database formats. It can directly connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Access, Excel, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, Text and other formats, and convert between these formats (SQL Server to MySQL, MySQL to Access etc.)

The program boasts a simple step-by-step wizard, that allows you to connect to the source database, select the tables, and then convert and copy them to the destination. You can choose to include all data or just copy the structure of the database.

Key features of ESF Database Convert:

• Convert one database to the other in only 3 steps
• Supports a variety of database formats
• Supports all the UNICODE characterset (UTF8, LATIN, CP1250, ASCII and so on)
• When using the MySQL API interface, you are able to convert MySQL database quicker

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GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites.

GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides an effective method of rapid application development.

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