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]

 

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

 

server side scripting language in the same vein as ASP, COLDFUSION, etc...

introduced really to do the stuff HTML can't

 

STFW !

PHP (originally stood for Personal Home Page, but now known as PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor) is a scripting language for web pages. goes hand in hand with MySQL to query an SQL database.

 

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

 

lol @ suba

steve

 

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"

 

You need code in your mainframe page to show the image:

<img src="<?php echo $tp?>">

 

i was just putting gif to test it, but how would i get one of my HTML pages to load in the main frame?