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Deepak M
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March 22, 2021
Question

XAMPP connection with dreamweaver

  • March 22, 2021
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Dear Community,

 

I downloaded the latest version of apache xampp phpmyadmin, but am unable to get it to work properly with dreamweaver. But when I use an older version of xampp 5.6.3 from nov 2014 the connection works fine.

 

Does anyone know why this is?

 

Thanks

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    Paul-M
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    March 22, 2021

    If you are on Windows I'd give EasyPHP a try instead...

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    Deepak MAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 22, 2021

    Thank you Paul

    Jon Fritz
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    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2021

    It depends on what you're doing.

    The newest installations of PHP won't work with DW's old Server Behaviors and database connection scripts (from CS6 and earlier). Rather than rewrite those scripts to function in modern installations of PHP, Adobe chose to eliminate them from the program.

    If that's the problem you're having, you'll need to manually rewrite your connection scripts, in PDO or MySQLi, or purchase an extension for DW from a third party extension developer.

    If that's not the issue, could you please explain a bit more of your workflow, what's actually happening, any error messages, etc?

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    Deepak MAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 22, 2021

    Hi Jon,

     

    Thank you for taking time to reply.

    I'm a beginner to coding. I think  your absolutely right in what your saying, but just to be sure the best way i can explain it to you is.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=740kEwoRPKk

     

    I was working through this short online tutorial, when i downloaded latest  version of  xampp my connections did not work, but a previous version did. xampp version 5.6.3

     

    Should i use another application like wamp or is the something elese that works better with dreamweaver?

     

    Thanks again for your time.

    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2021

    The method DW CS6 used is no longer considered secure and should not be used in a modern site. 

     

    Most hosting companies will be using the more updated versions of PHP anyway, so your site won't work online either.

    You'll be better off using a tutorial that shows you how to manually work with PDO or MySQLi instead of trying to work with programmed functions that are 9 years and 9 versions removed from"current".

    CS6 was a good version of DW, but as time goes by, more and more hand-coding comes into play as the internet evolves past it.

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