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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Dreamweaver CS3—Your Creative Partner

   Pages 1-31

3. Building Dynamic Sites with Ajax and PHP

   Pages 33-65

4. Getting the Work Environment Ready

   Pages 67-100

5. Setting Up a PHP Site

   Pages 103-132

6. Adding a Touch of Style

   Pages 135-159

7. Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box

   Pages 161-181

8. Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar

   Pages 183-206

9. Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets

   Pages 209-245

10. Building Online Forms and Validating Input

    Pages 247-293

11. Introducing the Basics of PHP

    Pages 295-322

12. Using PHP to Process a Form

    Pages 325-360

13. Working with PHP Includes and Templates

    Pages 363-398

14. Setting up MYSQL and phpMyAdmin

    Pages 401-427

15. Storing Records in a Database

    Pages 429-471

16. Controlling Access to Your Site

    Pages 473-516

17. Working with Multiple Tables

    Pages 519-569

18. Searching Records and Handling Dates

    Pages 571-615

19. Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML

    Pages 617-650

20. Using Spry to Display XML

    Pages 653-691

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

• Adobe
• CSS
• Dreamweaver
• HTML
• Layout
• MySQL
• PHP
• Templates
• Tutorial
• XML
• XSLT
• phpMyAdmin
• web design

From the reviews:

"The scope of this book is an ambitious one: to provide an intermediate-level guide to the entire new functionality of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 … via cascading style sheets (CSS) and dynamic interaction with Ajax. … this work is best suited for those Dreamweaver developers who know something about PHP, Ajax, and MySQL, but are looking to extend their skill set to use them together. … Powers provides a logical, well-written book that well serve intermediate developers who are looking to expand their skills … ." (Pascal V. Calarco, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2008)

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 valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish. What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC television and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy. When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.

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