How do I set up a product catalog page in Dreamweaver CS3, PHP MySQL?

Report · Sep 29, 2009

Hi everyone,

I am using MAMP 1.7, Mac Book pro Leopard 10.5.6 and Dreamweaver CS3.

Are there any good tutorials that explain how to set up product catalog pages, for a photography web site?

I want to display images from a MySQL database and link them to PayPal buttons.

My images are stored in a MySQL database as image file names not as BLOBS or the full URL.

I have looked on the web, but the tutorials I have found are patchy at best. I was also reading David Powers book The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3, PHP and AJAX, I was looking at the last three chapters about Spry and photo galleries, but I'm not sure if this approriate for what I want to do?

Can anyone help me please.

Thankyou in advance.

Report · Sep 29, 2009

David's book is a good place to start. This is really far more involved that can be covered in this forum. You'll need to get familiar with a database, most likely MySQL, PHP, how to send requests tot he database - queries - and most likely maintain a state with Sessions. As you can see, it's a bit involved. The good news is this skills you'll acquire to do this will go a long way! It will cover all the basic requirements of web application development.

Dive in, and have fun!

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