Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development (Programmer to Programmer)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 360 pages
• Published by: Wrox July 30, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764543873
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764543876
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Description
What is this book about?

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.

Publisher Description
This book is for web professionals who want to use Dreamweaver MX to produce PHP web sites. It doesn't assume any knowledge of PHP. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development (Paperback) This is the book I've been waiting for. When I used the Dreamweaver PHP tutorials, the sample files ended up throwing exceptions, and I wasn't able to finish the examples. In addition, the instructions and backup material on the Dreamweaver help pages were pretty sketchy. (Nothing against Macromedia, by the way...it's a wonderful product and the addition of PHP scripting support is very welcome). This volume, however, fills in all the blanks. Dreamweaver users will find enough PHP info to round out the included scripts, and newcomers to MySQL and PHP will get all the information they need to find and properly install the files and servers on their local systems. The hotel reservation model works well, is well planned to introduce readers to the software and the underlying PHP/MySQL code, and produces a very nice product. The authors have done a nice job in anticipating the sort of questions that newcomers to either PHP, MySQL, or Dreamweaver might have. More importantly (for this reader), the book delivers on its promise to teach the power of Dreamweaver to produce PHP/MySQL sites easily. I hope the authors will consider another (Volume 2) addition to this fine book.