PHP is one of the most popular server-side scripting languages available. It's powerful and easy to learn. Combined with MySQL — a fast, cross-platform, and free open source database — it makes a very effective tool for developing database-driven websites.
This book is all about developing PHP/MySQL websites with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, the premier visual website design tool. It will show you how to use Dreamweaver MX to rapidly develop database-driven PHP web applications with the minimum of fuss.
Throughout the book, we use a real-world example application, a hotel room booking system, to demonstrate just how quick and easy it is to build dynamic PHP sites with Dreamweaver MX.
What does this book cover?
Here are just a few of the things you'll find covered in this book:
Overview of Dreamweaver MX, PHP, and MySQL
Designing a site
Using server behaviors to interact with the database
Hand-coding and debugging in Dreamweaver
Who is this book for?
This book is for the web professional looking to develop database-driven PHP web applications using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Some knowledge of HTML and web design is assumed, but you don't need to know any PHP or MySQL.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Pathetic, do not buy ---10 stars
You could write a book just describing the errata and missing instructions for this one. Don't waste your money!
Rating: - Good starter for PHP in Dreamweaver
If you already know PHP then this book will be too easy for you. If you know Dreamweaver and want to get into PHP, this book isn't large and can help you a lot.
Rating: - Good book for PHP beginner
I've found this book very useful for a PHP beginner as me. I could make the whole website working with Dreamweaver MX 2004, PHP5 and MySQL 4x on my local machine and test it on a webserver using PHP4x and MySQL 3x.
Hints to work with this book:
ON YOUR LOCAL MACHINE:
1. Do not create password for MySQL
2. When creating Database Connection in Dreamweaver, type in the username as root, but do not type the password.
3. For Admin page, if you get an error, ... Read More
Rating: - Not for beginners or intermediate
While the content of the book is potentially good, anybody who needs a little handholding might get lost quickly as the author does not give much background information and skips many steps that are second nature to proficient developers. This is where the beginner puts this book away and the intermediate user struggles with finding more information on how-to-do a particular thing. (This starts with the setup of a Apache / MySQL / PHP server and ripples thru the whole book.)
Rating: - Riddled With Errors
This book is riddled with errors, from nonsense layouts to coding mistakes. The interface (a hotel booking system) is very rudimentary and does not work as advertised.
The book does introduce readers to Dreamweaver's server behavior interface and does a good job walking readers through a local install of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and a few other tools.
- Pathetic, do not buy ---10 stars
- Good starter for PHP in Dreamweaver
- Good book for PHP beginner
- Not for beginners or intermediate
- Riddled With Errors
