Chapter 10. INTRODUCING DYNAMIC CONTENT WITH PHP

What we'll cover in this chapter

  • What are dynamic sites?

  • How dynamic sites work

  • Installing Apache and PHP

  • Testing your installation

  • Setting up a PHP site in Dreamweaver MX 2004

  • Viewing PHP output with Live Data

So far you've only built static sites in Dreamweaver MX 2004. In this chapter, we introduce the second half of this book in which we'll add dynamic content to your site.

Producing dynamic websites is probably a new experience to you. There's quite a lot involved, but MX 2004 takes much of the hard work out of it, and over the course of the next five chapters and the final case study, we'll get you up to speed. By the end, you'll not only have a solid foundation in PHP, but you will have converted ...

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