Foundation Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

Chapter 11. GETTING INTERACTIVE WITH FORMS

What we'll cover in this chapter

• Dreamweaver MX 2004 features that make light work of coding PHP

  • Auto-completion

  • Balance Braces

  • Code colors

  • The PHP Insert bar

• Gathering and displaying information from a form

• The basic grammar of PHP

• Handling text

• Using PHP for calculations

• Building an online order form

Now that you've put in all that hard work installing Apache and PHP, you're probably raring to create dynamic pages. The first thing most books on programming languages teach you is how to write "Hello, world" or "Hi mom, this is my first page." We're ditching that boring old tradition because you can already do that quite adequately with XHTML. Instead, we're going to show you PHP's real power right away, and by ...