Dreamweaver MX-PHP Web Development
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Gareth Downes-Powell Tim Green Bruno Mairlot
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Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. Trademark Acknowledgements glasshaus has endeavored to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, glasshaus cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. Credits Authors Gareth Downes-Powell Technical Reviewers Aaron Brown Commissioning Editor Simon Mackie Technical Editors Amanda Kay Managing Editor Liz Toy Project Manager Sophie Edwards Production Coordinators Rachel Taylor Cover Dawn Chellingworth Indexer Adrian Axinte Proofreader Agnes Wiggers The cover image for this book was created by Don Synstelien of http://www.synfonts.com, co-author of the glasshaus book, "Usability: The Site Speaks For Itself". You can find more of Don's illustration work online at http://www.synstelien.com. About the Authors Gareth Downes-Powell Gareth Downes-Powell has been working in the computer industry for the last twelve years, primarily building and repairing PCs, and writing custom databases. He branched out onto the Internet five years ago, and started creating web sites and custom web applications. This is now his main area of expertise, and he uses a variety of languages including ASP and PHP, with SQL Server or MySQL backend databases. A partner in Buzz inet, http://www.buzzinet.co.uk/, an Internet company specializing in web design and hosting, he uses a wide range of Macromedia products, from Dreamweaver MX through to Flash and Director, for custom multimedia applications. Gareth maintains http://ultradev.buzzinet.co.uk/ as a way of providing support for the whole Macromedia UltraDev and MX Community. There, he regularly adds new tutorials and custom-written extensions to this rapidly expanding site. Gareth enjoys keeping up with the latest developments, and has been providing support to many users, to help them use UltraDev and Dreamweaver MX with ASP or PHP on both Linux and Windows servers. Rarely offline, Gareth can always be found in the Macromedia forums (news: forums.macromedia.com), where he helps to answer many users' questions on a daily basis. Tim Green Tim Green is a full-time IT Manager and an eBusiness/B2B Advisor based in the North West of England. Beginning his working life as a COBOL and Assembly Language programmer, he moved into web application development in 1996, after dabbling in numerous other careers, from acting to being a chef. A contributing developer to PHAkT, an implementation of PHP for UltraDev 4, he was contracted by PHAkT's creators to work on their other PHP implementation, ImpAKT, and the NeXTensio toolkit, and became the first developer to release additional extensions for UltraDev PHP, including a shopping cart management system called IntelliCART. Writing this book has both been an honor and a great experience, but it really wouldn't have been possible without the help and support of a number of key people. I would like to thank (in no particular order) Bruno Mairlot, Gareth Downes-Powell, Simon Mackie, Matt Machell, the whole of the glasshaus team, Massimo Foti, Jag Sidhu, Tom Muck, Waldo Smeets, George Petrov, the UDZone.com team, and the Dreamweaver Extension Development Community as a whole. A very special thanks goes to my wife Becky. I don't know how I would have done it without her; she's my best friend and my rock. Thanks babe. Bruno Mairlot Bruno Mairlot works for a network security and Internet solutions company based in Luxembourg. He specialises in developing implementations of network and Internet protocols with PHP and MySQL. He began his working life as the founder of a web site development and network services company four years ago, then moved on to work with other companies, but always working mainly as a web site developer and security consultant for the Web. Along with Tim and Gareth, Bruno is a contributor to the Dreamweaver and PHP community, and is part of the management team of the community site http://www.udzone.com. He is the author of a project that aims to give users a powerful MySQL administration console in Dreamweaver as an extension. Writing this book has been a tremendous and exciting experience, but wouldn't have been possible without the help of many people. First and foremost I would like to thank is my friend Tim Green. His support and enthusiasm on this project has helped me more than I could say. Thanks Tim. Next, my thanks go to my soul mate, Pascale. I couldn't have written any of this book without her being at my side, encouraging me and supporting me. I would also like to thank Simon Mackie from glasshaus, who did a tremendously good management job. Special thanks go to my colleague and friend, Con Dorgan, who helped me during my working hours and gave me a lot of suggestions for the book. | ||||||||||||||||
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