PHP
#1
IF you want to use PHP then you need to check that your hosting company supports it as it needs to be installed on their servers.
It is really easyist IMHO to use a text based editor (ultra edit, homesite etc.) when using PHP but there is no reason why you can't add the PHP code to a site created in dreamweaver afterwards.
IMHO I love PHP as firstly it is free (GPL - in most situations!) it is relitively easy whilst still being very powerful, and there are so many people availible to help
Some sites that are worth checking out are
http://www.devshed.com
http://www.echoecho.com
http://www.phpbuilder.com
Also as it is free if you have an old PC kicking about it is worth setting it up as a test server (Linux,Apache(SSL if you want),PHP,MySQL) to test it on as all the s/w is downloadable for no cost so you can test locally before uploading (can be a bit of a pain to get going but there are good articles to make sure you do it in the correct order)
Good luck
Andy
edited to say that all pages with PHP on must end in (depending on the PHP version) .php not .htm to work. There are some variations on this depending on how PHP has been configured or what version so check with your hosting company.
[Edited by 106rallye - 7/6/2002 12:41:40 PM]
It is really easyist IMHO to use a text based editor (ultra edit, homesite etc.) when using PHP but there is no reason why you can't add the PHP code to a site created in dreamweaver afterwards.
IMHO I love PHP as firstly it is free (GPL - in most situations!) it is relitively easy whilst still being very powerful, and there are so many people availible to help
Some sites that are worth checking out are
http://www.devshed.com
http://www.echoecho.com
http://www.phpbuilder.com
Also as it is free if you have an old PC kicking about it is worth setting it up as a test server (Linux,Apache(SSL if you want),PHP,MySQL) to test it on as all the s/w is downloadable for no cost so you can test locally before uploading (can be a bit of a pain to get going but there are good articles to make sure you do it in the correct order)
Good luck
Andy
edited to say that all pages with PHP on must end in (depending on the PHP version) .php not .htm to work. There are some variations on this depending on how PHP has been configured or what version so check with your hosting company.
[Edited by 106rallye - 7/6/2002 12:41:40 PM]
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What excaully is it?
can i do it the same way i would HTML in dream Weaver?
Found a brilliant Menu but its using php, so if i change my links in to php would it work?
Si
can i do it the same way i would HTML in dream Weaver?
Found a brilliant Menu but its using php, so if i change my links in to php would it work?
Si
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Great server side language imho, easy to pick up if you're used to C/C++/perl sorta syntax, great online reference to all the functions.
I run 5 web server and 2 SMP MySQL server that power www.itv-f1.com, never caused me a problem since MySQL 3.23.x
I run 5 web server and 2 SMP MySQL server that power www.itv-f1.com, never caused me a problem since MySQL 3.23.x
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its got this menu code...,"Boo", "history.php?tp=arrow.gif",,,0
I just put in arrow.gf to see if it'd show it in the mainframe, but it didnt just printed "arroow.gif"
I just put in arrow.gf to see if it'd show it in the mainframe, but it didnt just printed "arroow.gif"