dynamic website help

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December 3, 2007
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hello! i am new to most of this dynamic site creation. i have dreamweaver cs3 and the developer toolbox. i have read many books on mysql and php and all about databases. i am trying to create a database driven site. i am just confused on the things i read as for IIS, php and all the things you have to do to make it work. i am connecting to a server through my web host and i am able to connect to the databases and so on, but when i try testing my stuff it brings up an error, do you have to install the IIS along with being on another server? i am also confused on which is the best way to build the forms and and datasets, one says spry and ajax and then the developer toolbox, can someone just point me in the right direction? i think i have read so much stuff that i am now confusing myself. any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Use a form variable to filter the query on the same page.

Glenn

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Anonymous

form variable? for some reason i am drawing a blank on this, could you elaborate a little?

i am also working with developer toolbox, it seems to do all the coding for you, am i right? i can create the forms and do the recordsets with this without worrying about all the detailed data?

thanks

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> hello! i am new to most of this dynamic site creation. i have
> dreamweaver cs3
> and the developer toolbox. i have read many books on mysql and php and
> all
> about databases. i am trying to create a database driven site. i am just
> confused on the things i read as for IIS, php and all the things you have
> to do
> to make it work.

Easiest way IMHO is to download http://www.wampserver.com
It comes with PHP, MySQL, Apache server, PHPMyAdmin and
MySQL lite. Installs everything for you. done.

i am connecting to a server through my web host and i am able
> to connect to the databases and so on, but when i try testing my stuff it
> brings up an error, do you have to install the IIS along with being on
> another
> server?

No. You can use the wamp server. You do have to have PHP and MySQL
installed in order to test on your own computer and that's the beauty of
Wamp.

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Anonymous

awesome! thank you so much. i have a few more questions i am stumped on as well and this is probably nothing to you but.... with the databases lets say you want to look up someone by county and and the info will come up as well. my question is do you have to create a page for each county that would be looked up and displayed from the database? or is there some shortcut to it? second question is... i am creating a forum for each person that is stored, when others look it up and want to reply to it there will be a small fee to reply to the forum, how do you manage this if it is displayed when they click on the reply button? and with this would i be better off building a blog for it or forum?

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