Chapter 13. PHP/MySQL: The Real Dynamic Duo

What we'll cover in this chapter

  • Installing MySQL and phpMyAdmin

  • Preparing MySQL and Dreamweaver MX 2004 to work together

  • Building a PHP application that stores information in a database

  • Retrieving this information

Originally Dreamweaver created only static web pages. To create pages with server-side languages, such as ASP, JSP, or ColdFusion, you needed a separate product called UltraDev. When MX came out in 2002, the two products were merged, and PHP was added to the list of languages supported. Unfortunately, in the first release of MX PHP was unable to use many of the features offered for ASP and ColdFusion. Apparently, though, the engineers behind Dreamweaver felt that the rapid rise in popularity of ...

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