Product Description
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 web sites.
This book is all about developing PHP/ MySQL web sites with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, the premier visual web site 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 easily you can quickly build dynamic PHP sites with Dreamweaver MX.
Includes
This book will show you:
* Overview of Dreamweaver MX, PHP, and MySQL
* Designing the site
* Using server behaviors to interact with the database
* Hand coding and debugging in Dreamweaver
Who is this book for?
This book is for web professionals 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.
Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development
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If your doing development on a Mac, this book is NOT for you. I started reading the intro chapter 1, which did mention how to configure PHP on Mac OSX, but when i got to chapter 2, installing and configuring MySQL, everythign was windows related. So that leaves me with a worthless book. Ive been workign with HTML and Flash for a few years and really want to start using the dynamic aspects of site development instead of hiring out every time i need PHP or server tech done. On my own again….
Rating: 1 / 5
this book is not for beginners … poor writing and have a lot of nonsence layouts . wasting money to buy …
Rating: 1 / 5
Well, I’ve used this book to learn how to use this new Dreamweaver MX/PHP combination using my various Apple computers with great success.
Sure it’s not geared towards Mac users, but I would have felt not a little cheated, had I discovered nothing but page after page about how to download and install PHP or MySQL on Macs. You can find all that stuff on-line – especially at Mark Liyanage’s excellent Entropy website! It’s true that there is too much included on how to install these packages on PCs – but we all know PC users are a little shy of their wits, and they probably need all the help they can get, the poor dears!
What this book does do, is get you running good and fast, creating an example website. I’ve done some web design before, but haven’t made it very far. I always find myself in an awful dither about how to structure a database for a website. I found the book’s example very helpful in this respect. It was a realistic project (a hotel booking system) and you are shown how easy Dreamweaver makes it to read and write stuff on a database like this. I actually used the same approach as the book’s example, for a website I built for a local conference centre. I must say that the only thing I wish is that these authors would write me a follow on title, to extend on what I’ve now learnt. The book is great for learning, but is not really geared towards people in the situation where I now find myself – uploading stuff from my Mac onto my ISPs Cobalt Linux servers, for instance! In a way, it teases you, because it takes you this far and then says “there you go, you’re on your own, now!”
Four stars, I think, authors! A nice book, of a nice size, but give me a follow on title, so as I can make it to the stars!
Rating: 4 / 5
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: 4 / 5
The book was exactly as described. Is in great condition and saved me a bunch of money instead of buying it through my campus bookstore. Delivery was fast. Will order from them again.
Rating: 5 / 5