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Anonymous
June 13, 2009
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HELP! Cant get my Databases panel to work!

  • June 13, 2009
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I am very new to all this.

I have Dreamweaver CS3 for OSX.

I am using mySQL & phpmy admin from the MAMP site. All installed.

As I am trying to add a order form to one of may pages I have spent the last few days in shock as to how much more difficult dynamic pages are to static pages! It's like starting all over again.

I have managed to grasp that I need mySQL & PHP, just set up a test site & (following instructions from a tutorial book so have all the tutorial files placed in my htdocs root).

Now yesterday I could easily access my Databases panel, but now it's frozen or turned pale, along with my css panel (sorry don't know the correct term!). I managed to somehow access it quickly to set up a php connection by randomly going into "group bindings with/ new panel group" with made the panel separate, the connection was made sucessfully anyway. But when i tried to move the panel to the side it now wont let me do anything with it. Is this normal? I don't understand what I have done, i'm sure it is simple  but I have no clue!

I hope someone can help me.

I have attached a snapshot of what it looks like.

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Randy Edmunds
Adobe Employee
Randy Edmunds
Adobe Employee
June 14, 2009

Louisa,

Now yesterday I could easily access my Databases panel, but now it's frozen or turned pale, along with my css panel (sorry don't know the correct term!).

You need to have a page open to enable those panels. Is that the problem?

HTH,

Randy

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Anonymous
June 15, 2009

Hi Randy,

Thanks randy, I cant believe it was staring me in the face! You would think I would know such a simple thing.

Thing is I am using "dreamweaver CS3 bible" And as I have no idea what I'm doing I am just following the tutorials it explains to me and nowhere does it say "open this page to start tutorial" it goes straight into using the panels. I have no idea what page would be linked to this tutorial. Am I making sense?Could it be that I am on a Mac and on a PC you can access these panels without opening a page?

Regards

Louisa

David_Powers
David_Powers
Inspiring
June 15, 2009

Could it be that I am on a Mac and on a PC you can access these panels without opening a page?

No, the differences between the Mac and PC versions of Dreamweaver are infinitessimal. There were quite a lot of differences several versions ago, but the CS3 versions are almost identical on both platforms. CS4 brings them even closer.

Following tutorials in a book is a good way to learn (at least, I hope it is - I write books about Dreamweaver myself). However, books can take you only so far. You need to start experimenting yourself. I wonder what will happen if I do that? Ooh, that's interesting! Eugh, I'll remember not to do that again...

That's how I learned about Dreamweaver - experimentation. Try it. It's fun, although a bit scary at times.

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