Re: Dreamweaver

Hi Glen,

Glen Eustace wrote:
> This may have been better posted in the advocacy list but I am not a
> subscriber.
>
> We recently purchased Dreamweaver MX and I was a little surprised to
> find that one of its pre-defined scripting systems is PHP + MySQL. I
> haven't done much exploring of what is actually offered but wondered
> whether any one had tried to convince Macromedia to provide a PHP +
> PostgreSQL or at least a PHP + anydb.
>
> If the support for MySQL is in the form of an Extension, is there a
> PostgreSQL equivalent as I have been contacted by one of our clients who
> has said, "Do we povide MySQL ?", we dont. "Oh! I am teaching myself PHP
> + MySQL using Dreamweaver and I wanted you to host the site" :-(
>
> I use PHP + PosgreSQL alot. I'd love to be able to help people who have
> the impression that MySQL is all there is !! When the toolset they have
> only mentions MySQL it is easy to understand how they come to that
> conclusion.

Usually Macromedia avoids to support anything good :-)
You can however try to script the support into Dreamweaver
using Javascript (most of DWs functionallity is written
in Javascript)

Regards
Tino Wildenhain