Dreamweaver MX (eBook)

Gareth Downes-Powell has been working in the computerindustry for the last twelve years, primarily building andrepairing PCs, and writing custom databases. He branched out ontothe Internet five years ago, and started creating web sites andcustom web applications. This is now his main area of expertise,and he uses a variety of languages including ASP and PHP, with SQLServer or MySQL backend databases.A partner in Buzz inet, http://www.buzzinet.co.uk/, an Internetcompany specializing in Web Design and Hosting, he uses a widerange of Macromedia products, from Dreamweaver MX through toMacromedia Flash and Director for custom multimedia applications.Gareth maintains http://ultradev.buzzinet.co.uk/ as a way ofproviding support for the whole Macromedia UltraDev and MXCommunity. There, he regularly adds new tutorials and customwritten extensions to this rapidly expanding site.Gareth enjoys keeping up with the latest developments, and has beenproviding support to many users, to help them use UltraDev orDreamweaver MX with ASP or PHP, o n a Linux or Windows server.Rarely offline, Gareth can always be found in the Macrom ediaforums (news: forums.macromedia.com), where he helps to answer manyusers questions on a daily basis.Tim Green is a full time IT Manager and an eBusiness/B2BAdvisor based in the North West of England. Beginning his workinglife as a COBOL and Assembly Language programmer, he moved into webapplication development in 1996, after dabbling in numerous othercareers, from acting to being a chef.A contributing developer to PHAkT, an implementation of PHP forUltraDev 4, he was contracted by PHAkT's creators to work ontheir other PHP implementation, ImpAKT, and the NeXTensio toolkit,and became the first developer to release additional extensions forUltraDev PHP, including a shopping cart management system calledIntelliCART.Bruno Mairlot works as full time employee in Security andHigh Availability company based in Luxembourg. He specialises indeveloping implementation of network and internet protocols withPHP and MySQL.He began his working life as founder of a company for websitedevelopment and network services four years ago, then moved on towork with other companies, but always working mainly as a websitedeveloper and security consultant for the web.Along with Tim and Gareth, Bruno is also a contributor to theDreamweaver and PHP community, and is part of the management teamof the community site Udzone.com. He is the author of the projectthat aims to give users a powerful MySQL Administration consoleinto Dreamweaver as an extension.

Introduction.Style Conventions.Support/Feedback.Web Support.Chapter 1: What Is PHP?What Is PHP and What Is It for?Introducing Dreamweaver MX.Dreamweaver MX and PHP.Installing and Configuring PHP.Summary.Chapter 2: What Is MySQL?What Is MySQL?Installing and Configuring MySQL.MySQL Basics.Additional Tools for MySQL.Summary.Chapter 3: Getting Started with Dreamweaver MX.The Essentials.Creating a Site Definition.Summary.Chapter 4: Planning the Web Site.Architecture of a Dynamic Web Site.The Brief.Determining Site Features.Planning the Database Structure.Determining Site Functionality and Features.Summary.Chapter 5: Beginning Site Development.Setting Up the Database.Using Templates To Standardize Layout.Summary.Chapter 6: Manipulating the Database.Database Operations within Dreamweaver MX.The Hotel Booking System.Building the Pages.Summary.Chapter 7: Advanced SQL Usage.Creating an Advanced Recordset.Modifying the Structure of Existing Tables.Optimization.Summary.Chapter 8: Creating a Search System.Search Engines.Designing the User Interface.Building the Query.Displaying the Results.Summary.Chapter 9: Hand Coding within Dreamweaver MX.PHP Code Syntax.Coding Options in Dreamweaver MX.Good Hand Coding Practices.Practical Example - Login System for DreamweaverHotel.Summary.Chapter 10: The Server Behavior Builder.What Is the Server Behavior Builder?When To Use the Server Behavior Builder.How To Build a Server Behavior.Summary.Chapter 11: Debugging Your Code.Programming Errors.Debugging Techniques.Summary.Index.