Hi all. I am not a programmer by any means. I do however know dreamweaver very well as an html editor. Is their some sort of a PHP editor that works visually for creating very simple frontends to display data in existing databases i already have as mysql databases? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
No I do not believe so. But what you are interested in learning is very simple... Might want to give php a go Visual editor is not possible as alot of the php is not actually shown on the page. PHP is very different than HTML. HTML is a a simple language. Which in my opinion is not an actually programming language. It's a base where to begin in learning about web development. PHP is a server side language, which makes it an actual programming language. (Making it not visual...)
Dreamweaver8 has PHP/MYSQL development. You will need to setup a testing server. Then you can use dreamweaver with php the same as you would html.
I don't like Code Charge Studio's licensing scheme but after reviewing PHPRunner it looks very promising. One thing to understand, these programs don't usually produce anything sophisticated in terms of websites. They are pretty much just dynamic scripting engines for spitting out mySQL front ends. To get any real website functionality would take a real programmer and some creative imagination.