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APPENDIX G

Setup for Sample PHP

Site

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 comes with sample PHP pages to let you

build a small web application. This chapter describes one way to set up the

sample application using Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). For

more information on this web server, see “Installing a Web Server”

on page 231. If you’re using a different web server, see Chapter 23, “Setting

Up a Web Application” in Using Dreamweaver.

If you’re a Macintosh user, you can either connect to a remote PHP server

or develop PHP sites locally using the Apache web server and PHP

application server installed with your operating system. For setup

information, see the following websites:

■ http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/php.html

■ www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

Setting up a web application is a three-step process. First, configure your

system. Second, define a Dreamweaver site. Third, connect the application

to your database. This setup guide follows this three-step process.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Setup checklists for PHP developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Configuring your system (PHP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Defining a Dreamweaver site (PHP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311

Connecting to the sample database (PHP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315