The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

✍ Scribed by David Powers (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 756
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards-compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more.

To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to it. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

• Takes you through your development environment set up
• Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
• Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Dreamweaver CS3—Your Creative Partner....Pages 1-31
Building Dynamic Sites with Ajax and PHP....Pages 33-65
Getting the Work Environment Ready....Pages 67-100
Setting Up a PHP Site....Pages 103-132
Adding a Touch of Style....Pages 135-159
Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box....Pages 161-181
Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar....Pages 183-206
Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets....Pages 209-245
Building Online Forms and Validating Input....Pages 247-293
Introducing the Basics of PHP....Pages 295-322
Using PHP to Process a Form....Pages 325-360
Working with PHP Includes and Templates....Pages 363-398
Setting up MYSQL and phpMyAdmin....Pages 401-427
Storing Records in a Database....Pages 429-471
Controlling Access to Your Site....Pages 473-516
Working with Multiple Tables....Pages 519-569
Searching Records and Handling Dates....Pages 571-615
Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML....Pages 617-650
Using Spry to Display XML....Pages 653-691
Getting the Best of Both Worlds with PHP and Spry....Pages 693-729
Back Matter....Pages 731-752

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques