Foundation PHP for Dreameaver 8 [Paperback]

* The book supports the new version of Dreamweaver, a huge potential market!

* This book is fairly unique within that market - a book purely focused on PHP web development with Dreamweaver that teaches professional techniques, and doesnt treat readers like idiots (it isnt aimed at the dummies audience.)

* Dreamweaver has over 3 million users worldwide.

Confession time. When I first started developing dynamic websites with Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, I made a complete mess of things. I believed rather naively that Dreamweaver would do it all for me, and that all I needed to do was point and click. The first couple of projects actually went well, giving me a false sense of security. As soon as I attempted anything that didnt fit into the same p- tern as the basic tutorials, things began to go horribly wrong. Even though Ive always been happy working with code, one look inside Code view sent shivers up my spine. Part of the problem was that I didnt have a clear grasp of database structure or of what server-side technology really involved. The other part of the problem was that I was treating Dreamweaver as a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) program. If I saw something wasnt in the right place, I just highlighted it in Design view and hit DELETE. What I didnt realize was that this left behind messy code that caused even the simplest of applications to break. The more I deleted, the worse it got. I dont want that to happen to you. Thats why I wrote this book.A table of contents is not available for this title.David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8. As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is vallCZ