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Dreamweaver is Macromedia’s best-selling web design/development environment, which has in excess of 3 million users worldwide. The new version of it is available later on this year.

In this book we look specifically at using Dreamweaver’s built-in server behaviors to build dynamic web sites using PHP and MySQL, the world’s most popular open source server-side language and database server combination, which are both reliable, powerful, and open source (and therefore free to use.) The new version of Dreamweaver includes even more powerful support for PHP and MySQL.

David Powers first takes you through the new version of Dreamweaver, and how PHP and MySQL fit into it, then looks in-depth at setting up your work environment – installing PHP, MySQL, and the Apache web server, making sure they are all working together, and setting up a new web site via Dreamweaver. He then goes to work, using several tutorials and real world examples including topics such as PHP essentials (knowing what PHP code looks like,) working with forms, designing and implementing effective MySQL databases, debugging and troubleshooting, creating dynamic navigation, login, and search functionality

Examples built throughout the book include a content management system, and an online image gallery. All examples are designed to meet modern usability requirements and be web standards compliant. No previous experience of PHP or MySQL is necessary to use this book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #947543 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.88 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 530 pages

From the Author
Since my previous book on PHP in Dreamweaver MX 2004, I've spent a lot of time researching the problems people encounter getting PHP/MySQL to work with Dreamweaver. The result is a book that I'm convinced will have you up and running quickly and painlessly. Dreamweaver 8 takes a lot of the hard work out of integrating a database into your websites, but it can’t do everything. So instead of just giving you a series of instructions to click this and click that, I help you understand what’s going on in the background. If you understand why you’re doing something, you’re more likely to remember it, and to get it right.

I’ve based the book round a case study that puts all of Dreamweaver’s PHP server behaviors through their paces, and uses techniques that can be applied to a wide range of sites, whether you’re designing for yourself or on behalf of clients. I also equip you with sufficient knowledge of basic PHP to have the confidence to dive into the code generated by Dreamweaver and tweak it to your own requirements. The emphasis is exclusively on PHP, so you don’t waste any time on information that’s not relevant to what you’re doing.

The final chapter takes an in-depth look at the exciting new addition to Dreamweaver 8’s server behaviors, XSL Transformation, which makes light work of incorporating a live news feed and other XML documents into your websites. I’ve had fun writing it. I hope you have fun using it.

About the Author

David Powers has written or co-authored three highly-praised books on PHP and web development such as: Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004 (foED, ISBN: 1-59059-308-1), PHP Web Development with Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Apress, ISBN: 1-59059-350-2), and Foundation PHP 5 for Flash (foED, ISBN: 1-59059-466-5). David is a professional writer, who has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television, and more recently with the Internet. His interest in computing dates back to his time as BBC correspondent in Tokyo in the late 1980s and early 1990s. With no corporate IT department just down the corridor, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself.

Back in the UK as Editor for BBC Japanese TV, David started working with web design. He persuaded BBC Online to let him have free run of a tiny corner of the BBC’s Internet server; and he built and maintained an 80-page Japanese and English website—first, coding by hand, and then trying all variety of HTML editors, good and bad. He decided to set up his own independent company, Japan Interface (http://japan-interface.co.uk/) in 1999, and he is actively involved in the development of an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy. David is also an acknowledged translator of Japanese, and has translated several musical plays by Keita Asari.