I was merely pointing out the features of the product.

To be honest, in reading your other postings, you're absolutely right about
learning the basics of PHP/MySQL. I'm not a PHP guru, but when I started
using it with Ultradev I knew none at all, and found I had to learn the
basics. I couldn't rely on Ultradev to do it for me. I now understand enough
that quite often I find I'm tweaking the code that MX generates to fit, or
re-writing it altogether. It's the same with plain HTML pages Dreamweaver
generates: you really need to understand what it is you are creating to get
the most out it.

The two Glasshaus books, "Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development" and
"Dreamweaver MX: Advanced PHP Web Development" are terrific because they
give you a good grounding in PHP/MySQL to help you understand what you're
doing, especially in the sections on hand coding. Great books all around.

Other websites to go to for good PHP tutorials are O'Reilly's onLAMP
section, www.onlamp.com (LAMP - Linux,Apache,MySQL,Perl-PHP-Python), and
www.devshed.com. I've learned a lot at both sites.

I don't think we need a separate mailing list. As long as we're using
Dreamweaver to build the sites, we should be able to post questions here.

Jack O'Melia


Subject: Re: Do we have any PHP people here...
From: "Jordan L. Chilcott - Dreamweaver Talk List Admin"
<dreamweaver-admin@blueworld.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:26:34 -0500

Considering that we are talking PHP and MySQL, I fail to see why ADODB
is needed. Besides, any reliance on ADODB limits the use to Windows
based servers.

jord

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 08:25 AM, John O'Melia wrote:

> I started using PHP/MySQL with Dreamweaver Ultradev when it would only
> do
> ASP, JSP and ColdFusion. I found a group that created a free PHP
> extension
> called PHakt. It worked quite well. I now use a version for MX that
> adds to
> the functionality, with a very good user authentication function. It
> uses
> ADODB to connect to the db. It's certainly worth a look. They also have
> commercial versions that are more robust, but I haven't tried those
> yet.
> You can find them at www.interakt.ro.
>
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