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The Update command is one of the important features that Dreamweaver MX / Ultradev provided to web developer. Unfortunately, this command was not applicable to PHP pages. This tutorial explains how to re-create the ASP Update command in Dreamweaver MX so that it works with PHP pages. This is particularly useful for those who have an image gallery in MySQL and would like to track the number of hits to every individual image.

Ever since Dreamweaver MX was released, one of the questions that I noticed was asked more often than most was how to create a horizontal looper for the PHP/MySQL server model. I have been working away at it for months and I believe what I found may help. It tried to create an extension out of it, but the Dreamweaver MX API was so complex and I could not be bothered figuring it out.

I hope this tutorial will help a lot of php programmers out there create their own horizontal looper pages for whatever purpose they wish to use it for. If you're ready. let get started.

First of all, open up Dreamweaver MX and create a new dynamic PHP page. Identify the recordset that you wish to use and create a recordset.

This tutorial shows how to format a MySQL date field so that it can be displayed in a proper format. e.g 20020711000000 -> 11th July 2002 00:00:00. This has been quite a common question asked over the internet. Hopefully, this tutorial should shed some light on how to overcome the problem.

I am writing this tutorial with the assumption that you know how to create a connection with MySQL, how to create recordsets and how to display them in Dreamweaver MX.

Looking to setup a WAMP server but don’t know where to start? Well you have come to the right place. First of all there are many ways that are available to help you setup such a server. For the majority of newbies, the idea of having to sit down and manually configure everything can prove to be a pain in the backside. The following tutorial will guide you thru the steps necessary for you to transform your Windows PC into a fully configured WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) development server.

The best tool I have found to do this so far is XAMPP which you will need to download from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. Once you have downloaded the installer file for Windows and locate it on your hard drive (it should be xampp-win32-1.5.5-installer.exe).

While re-designing my website, I came across a couple of sites that I believe you may find useful. BuiltWith (http://www.builtwith.com) and Website Grader (http://www.websitegrader.com).

BuiltWith is a website analysis tool, providing technical analysis and SEO optimization information to further your website's marketing, sales and navigation effectiveness. Website Grader on the other hand, is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

For any web designer, I feel this is pretty useful.