Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development

By Tim Green and Gareth Downes-Powell

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764543873
• ISBN13: 9780764543876
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Wrox
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Matt Review - Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development

Matt Review - Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development - Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green, Bruno Mairlot - GlasshausI am stunned. Real deer in the headlights stuff here. I have gone through so many books in the years I have been in the business and edited about 12 of them. This has to be the best, I mean the VERY best book I have ever seen dealing with databases and web programming. If I had had this book in 1996, I would have *owned*...

Immediate Results!

This is an excellent resource for Dreamweaver MX users looking to extend their websites beyond HTML. You can't beat PHP and MySQL for creating DB driven sites at a low cost(free!), and this books helps to make it easy. Highly recommended!

Great Resource for Dreamweaver Users

I have been using Dreamweaver for over 3 years and more recently Dreamweaver MX. I consider myself an expert in Dreamweaver, but I have never used its dynamic features. This book was a great resource for me. After reading through it, and its examples, I was creating PHP MySQL dynamic pages in two days. I never knew how easy Dreamweaver MX makes PHP MySQL development until this book explained it to me. This has unleashed a...

Excellent for Dreamweaver MX's PHP_MySQL server model

This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to use the PHP_MySQL server model in Dreamweaver MX. The authors, who are very helpful members of the Dreamweaver user community, have given us something that is useful for new as well as experienced web developers.Those who are new to dynamic web site development and do not have prior PHP knowledge can also easily get up to speed with how best to use PHP and MySQL with Dreamweaver...

Excellent guide to PHP/MySQL websites using Dreamweaver

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...