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Subject:    [Quanta] Quanta PHP support...
From:       David Jung <jungdl () ornl ! gov>
Date:       2005-04-26 21:08:10
Message-ID: 426EADBA.1050705 () ornl ! gov
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Hello.  I'm currenly evaluating which editor/environment to use for a new
HTML documentation effort.  Quanta looks pretty nice & full featured,
but I is missing something I need and I think may be easy to implement.
I've never done KDE development before, but I'd be willing to take a shot
if I get time (except if one of the existing developer thinks they could
do it in 5 mins).

Before I describe the problem and get some knee-jerk reactions about
web-servers and the like, I'd like to remind readers of a couple points:

1) HTML is a markup syntax for hyper-text documents, and has
    nothing intrinsically to do with the web - it is more generic that that.
    It's status as the lingua-franca for the web is mearly through 
historical events.
2) PHP is a preprocessor & scripting syntax, that similarly has nothing
    specifically to do with the web.

So, I'd like to be able to use Quanta to edit simple XHTML documents
with embedded PHP and preview it in the prevew pane.
Note that I'm not running a web-server, nor do I ever intend to, nor
will the documents ever be hosted on the web or viewed by a
'web browser' (though, of course by a XHTML renderer).

I can almost achieve what I need with Quanta now.  I have
defined a new Action called 'PHP preview' that takes the
current buffer and pipes it to the /usr/bin/php command
(with -q option to avoid generating HTML content header)
and has the output in a new file.  That works, but it would
be much more convenient if I could have the output go
into the preview view.
I guess what'd I'd like is an option in the action dialog for
output to preview instead of as a new document.

So - would that be easy to implement?  Is anyone who knows
the code base willing to do it quickly?  If not, can someone
give me a quick pointer to where in the source code I should
look first to see what changes I need to make in order to
add in that functionality?

Thanks in advance,
-David.

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