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Anonymous
July 30, 2009
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PostgreSQL Support in CS3

  • July 30, 2009
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After spending 4-5 months learning experimenting with CS3, now I am at page# 514 (Dreamweaver CS3) under the heading:

Database connections for PHP developers.

Further down it says that uder DW only MySQL is supported for PHP development.

I am wondering if there is any extensions to support PostgreSQL? If not my goose is cooked!!!!

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David_Powers
David_Powers
Inspiring
July 31, 2009

To the best of my knowledge there are no extensions supporting PostreSQL in Dreamweaver. When the Dreamweaver server behaviors were developed, all database connections in PHP were done through database-specific functions. MySQL is the most popular database used in conjunction with PHP, so that was chosen. PHP now supports database-neutral functionality through PDO, but it's not supported by Dreamweaver. If you would like to see PDO supported in Dreamweaver, submit a feature request through the form at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform.

Your comment that your goose is cooked suggests that you were planning to rely on Dreamweaver doing all the coding for you. That's a common mistake. The server behaviors speed up coding, but should not be relied upon as a substitute for coding knowledge. Learning how to code PHP yourself will take time, but in the end it will be time well spent. You can save frequently used code in the Snippets panel.

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Anonymous
July 31, 2009

I started out with MySQL then three months ago switched to PostgreSQL because of some issues with MySQL. Now I am switching back to MySQL. My manager is not going to be happy.

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