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Anonymous
November 23, 2010
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CS5 and Other Programs

  • November 23, 2010
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I asked this in another discussion but shouldn't have because it was under the wrong topic.  Hopefully the answers here can help myself and many others.  I'm trying to build a business website, I'm using dynamic data because I don't feel like building the entire corporate inventory of around 20,000 items one page and link at a time.

I'm aware that there's some issues in trying to combine DW and VS 2010 in certain regards.  I'm also aware of various other IDE's such as Netbeans.

Ok, if I built a SQL (or MySQL) database using something like C#, could DW read from it?  I don't need to transfer anything other than the structure (table set up, contents, and the entity relationships).  So if I filled in about 200 products worth of information in VS for testing purposes, could Dreamweaver read that and could I make it do query statements without compatibility popping up?  All DW needs to do is read and query it, as far as I know, that doesn't need anything like stored procedures from VS.  Secondly, if I updated that database using VS, would I have to rebuild my DW connection, if not, how do I do it?

I've found the PHP code to make Dreamweaver display dynamic data, would this interfere?

That leaves the other question.  Netbeans has PHP editing capability, if I wrote the code in Netbeans, I could just copy and paste that into DW, right?  I just want the debugging feature that won't make me guess at the problems, and netbeans shows me right in the code where it's wrong.

Any answers welcomed and appreciated.

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Anonymous
November 23, 2010

I think I am confused by the whole train of thought.

You need a database to hold about 20k items.  So why not just build a MySQL database using php to create your  inserts and queries?

Netbeans and Dreamwever are editors, what you create in NB can be inserted into DW.  It is all just code, and the editors allow you a canvas to create your code. NB seems to be getting a little irratic as of late, I have an earlier version and use it to try to find errors before testing.

Something I have done also, while a little of topic, is with that many items to store, I have created a form for the owner to insert the data into the db, relieving you of the work.

But, it just seems you are complicating things too far.

Gary

Anonymous
November 23, 2010

Sorry, I was caught in my own weird train of thought.  I wanted to use C# to create that form you mentioned to update the database.  I just didn't know if that would work with DW or not.  Just make a simple .exe that would be able to select that database, add info, save, and close.  You phrased it perfect, a form.

The problem is that most of the stuff isn't even on the site, literally starting from scratch, no inventory lists I can use very well, no pictures, no descriptions, nothing.  I wanted to make that form with C# just to streamline adding data.  Can I do that without messing up Dreamweaver?

Anonymous
November 23, 2010

I dont know C#, ,so maybe someone else can help with that, but why not just create a form in html, have it processed by the php?  Give the URL to the site owner with the form on it and let them go about inserting data while you work on other aspects of the project?

Gary

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