Building PHP Applications With Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

It would be a great if you melon folks would do a series of Dreamweaver-PHP tutorials. Macromedia has relatively little on their site on PHP. So, here's hoping you'll write more for us!

I do my design and developing all on the one PC and use it for the local, remote and testing server. So I needed to install PHP, Apache and MySql for Windows and after spending weeks off and on trying to configure them I finally found "phpdev423" at "http://www.firepages.com.au/":http://www.firepages.com.au/
This is a brilliant bundle of all three in one installer, it worked first time on my windows XP Pro, and is perfect for Dreamweaver users tring to get to grips with PHP and MySql.

HI,
when i'm trying to run my code it gives the folling error
Undefined index: submit in C:\Apache2\htdocs\test.php on line 8

line 8 is
<?php if (!$HTTP_POST_VARS['submit']) { ?>

Thanks for a well written article. I've used DW for a while but didn't know about the new integration with PHP offered in MX.

Thanks for a well written article. I've used DW for a while but didn't know about the new integration with PHP offered in MX.

My girlfriend is a Dreamweaver enthusiast, while i´ve been mucking around with php for a few months.
(Design/flashy websites versus powerful/full-of-content philosophy).

You guys think "marriage" is the most appropiate verb?

Lets get involved in this MX, and
hope to hear more from this subject,

Raul Alvaro Fraser
http://raul.info

From Granada, Spain.

Hi,

If you looking for an extended PHP feature set in Dreamweaver MX.
Have a look at impakt2 from www.interakt.ro
Impakt2 offers forms wizards with transaction support and login with multi-level access.

I liked the article and found it quite useful for setting up the basics of DB interaction. However; all of the problems I experienced were in the update form that I was trying to create. (Updates, of course, aren't covered in the article...)

To (hopefully!) save some time for others, note that DW does not like dashes, underscores or any other weird, un-letter-like charcters in the names of recordsets, bindings etc. Worse, it doesn't complain if you put them in, it just doesn't work. (and then you spend hours trying to figure out what's wrong). Also, never name your primary index in your DB "index" - although MySQL doesn't have a problem with it, PHP (or maybe DW?) does.

On another tangent, if anyone is doing this on MacOS X, you already have apache and php ready to go (just enable php in httpd.conf). MySQL is available from www.entropy.ch and is dead easy to install. It rocks having the test server as your development machine! Make a change in DW and it's already there in http://localhost in your browser.

As another aside, I would like to see more about PHP and MySQL in DW, especially the more advanced stuff like using joins etc. from within DW.

Cheers!

Miles

Here's where phpdev and other installation packages can be found (as noted in the "php.net":http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php beginner's tutorial).

"http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Software_and_Servers/Installation_Kits/":http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Software_and_Servers/Installation_Kits/

Great article, thanks!

I have a few questions on DWMX with PHP.

1. Is there a Reference available of PHP for Dreamweaver? I've read about references that have been created for MX on languages, etc.. They show up in the top right hand side of MX. It's great for getting the syntax on functions, etc..

2. Anyone know how to improve the connectivity of DW? Connecting and editing my site remote with DW is kind of a pain. As I'm developing, if the ftp connection is lost, it tells me about it. I'd prefer it just login, send/get the files and log off. But it seems to linger and then taunt me that it was disconnected.

I agree - it's tricky to get used to using things the dreamweaver way.

You've probably already gotten around this by now, but here's what works:

// instead of 'if (!$_POST['submit'])'
// use

if (!(isset(_POST['submit'])))

The line as written in the tut should work, but doesn't, and I haven't found out why yet (or if I have I don't remember) - but I will, sooner or later.

Building PHP Applications With Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

December 18, 2002 - Looking for a RAD tool to help you quickly and efficiently develop PHP-based Web applications? Or just new to PHP and MySQL in general? You might want to spend some time with Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia's latest revision of their venerable HTML editor, which comes with some nifty new ideas designed to minimize hand-coding of PHP scripts.

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Name: Anonymous User
Subject: Very interesting indeed
Date: 02-28-2003 11:52:13 MST
My girlfriend is a Dreamweaver enthusiast, while i´ve been mucking around with php for a few months. (Design/flashy websites versus powerful/full-of-content philosophy).

You guys think "marriage" is the most appropiate verb?

Lets get involved in this MX, and hope to hear more from this subject,

Raul Alvaro Fraser URL

From Granada, Spain.