ISPG IDE

Instant Server Pages Generator and Integrated Environment Debuger is the easiest way to create and maintain web sites that use ISPG technology. In addition, most of the editing tools and wizards can also be used to create and organize websites that use other scripting technologies.

ISPG IDE contains:

• Web editing tools, content organizer, menu generator, link checker, link directories generator (site map, site index, etc), applicable to any website.
• ISPG debugger
• ISPG test server 

ISPG IDE allows you to define web menus and organize the content in folders and subfolders following the menu organization. You can easily re-organize menus and files, since a link check wizard will fix the links after a re-organization. You can start with a default JavaScript menu implementation and refine it later. A menu wizard will help you create new menu items and add corresponding default web pages that you will fill in later.

You can use a graphical editor in two modes:

• In Design mode, you view only the content of one file, ignoring templates and include files.
  
• In Layout mode, templates and file inclusion are evaluated first and you will see a web page with a layout very close to what would be seen in a browser. If the page uses templates, only part of the editor window will be editable, corresponding to the text of the edited file. Included files will not be editable either. Links in Layout mode are active, so you can use them to browse the edited site and move back and forth. Having all of the site navigation active (as well as all client site scripts) is very helpful for quick checks.

To use Layout editing capabilities in other types of pages, such as page.html, create a new page named page.html.ispg and use templates and include files as you would normally do in a .ispg file. Whenever page.html.ispg file is compiled, a corresponding page.html file will be generated, so that you can move on the production website later.

The ISPG test server is used during Layout mode editing to serve editable pages, without actually running the server side scripts. This way it can be used on other types of pages (html, asp, php etc). Another use is to browse ispg pages and check if the processing and formatting phases perform as expected.

The ISPG debugger will help identify problems in the .icod or .ispg files. You can set breakpoints and watch variable values as they get changed, or the way they get included in the formatted html response.