So If you have used Dreamweaver to do rapid development of a website, you will quickly learn of it’s limitations. In areas it can shorten development time, and in other areas, it still requires good old fashioned programming knowledge to get the job done.
Well, in this last project I am doing, I require a database interaction (which means handling data entry forms as well as listing and updating as well. This is one of the functions that Dreamweaver can save time on… a lot of time because it creates the tables and database update code for you. Sure, there will be some minor modification that comes up, but it is much less by far than creating everything from scratch.
So what is required to use this functionality and where is it on Dreamweaver, and how do you avoid the “Unidentified error occurs when testing a PHP / MySQL connection”?
Before you even get started, you do need to have your database schema in place (all of your tables and even some of your data if needed). You will need the usually database username, password, and localhost info available as well before you get started.
These are the steps I took to finally get this working and finally get rid of that Unidentified Error when trying to get the data objects working.
- Create database and tables on your host server
- Create a new site (or update one that is already there) within Dreamweaver
- Upload the server scripts into the directory “_mmServerScripts/”(or whatever you call your test server scripts directory) at the same level as your /www directory on your server. You won’t see this directory within Dreamweaver and will only be able to see it with another FTP Program. You can […]
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