[Oblivion Knight]

Originally Posted by Revan

I would like to submit the following comments to this guide.

You should also add that ALL the FTP clients you suggested supports the AUTO transfer mode, which (amongst others) automatically transfers PHP files in ASCII mode (which is the relevant file type and transfer mode for 99 % of all vB related transfer).

I'll add a section about the AUTO mode to the guide shortly..

Originally Posted by Revan

No it bloody well isnt.
I strongly resent the ENTIRE part of this post.
I used Dreamweaver for 90 % of my coding career, and not ONCE has it (nor FrontPage for that matter) fooked up my files.
The ONLY reason why it would EVER destroy vB code is if you, in your preferences, turned ON code rewriting.
Now I got code rewriting on, and yet DW doesnt mess up my vB files!?
OMFG!
I just put .php and .php3 as an extension in "Never rewrite code files with the following extensions:"

I cannot express thoroughly enough how much it PISSES ME OFF that someone just writes "Dreamweaver is not recommended because it destroyd vB coding", without actually bothering to check what the cause is and try to resolve it internally.

With all due respect, 80% of errors that people get when editing the functions.php file is caused by something that Dreamweaver has done (like you say, probably with code rewriting on).

Therefore, it is NOT recommended. Simple as.

Similarly with Wordpad, I use that all the time with no problems at all, but people that are new to coding experience problems and therefore it isn't recommended..

This guide is aimed at beginners, so I recommended the plain-text editors only.

Originally Posted by Revan

Your "correct" SQL query syntax, while it works just perfect, is not 100 % correct.

The ONLY reason why you have syntax errors in your "incorrect" query is because usage of ' in the name area is not permitted, you must either use ` or none.

I'm no query whizz, so thanks for pointing this out. Appropriate changes will be made.

Originally Posted by Jolten

I'd just like to add for the Macintosh, the best text editing application would be BBEdit from www.barebones.com. Users shoudl NOT use the macintosh TextEdit application. As for FTP, my favorite is Transmit from www.panic.com, but there's also Fetch along with other smaller FTP clients. In fact, MacOS 10 can directly connect to a server via FTP.

Thanks for the info, I'll add it with the next update.