I want to use Dreamweaver using PHP and MySQL Community Server

Report · Mar 16, 2016

However, I do not know if this can be done. Specifically, I don't know how I would connect the two? Is Community Server the best way to go? I don't know if this is the best way to go. I have read plenty of tutorials on mySQLPHP alongside WAMP and Dreamweaver. That won't work as far as I can tell.

I work for a big governmental organization and they don't provide support for what I want to do., The server I use is IIS. And that is not compatible with mySQL PHP, or is it. However the server does support PHP. That doesn't do much good unless I have installed mySQL.

What I have used for years is Access and ASP. I am very restricted on what if can do (which is not much to be honest).

Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated

Summary: How to connect mySQL Community Server with Dreamweaver?.

Report · May 24, 2016

You absolutely can used DW to create and maintain PHP/HTML/Javascript/MySQL applications. It works very well.

Chances are you won't be able to use it in your environment, however. IIS typically the ASP platform and DW I believe only supports PHP/MySQL kinds of interactions. On my system, a Mac, I run MAMP as my Apache/MySQL base on my local Mac and create the application there, then upload to the remote site using DW's functions. I had to chase down a way to install the Databases plug in but once I did, everything worked perfectly. I can split code and browser while IN DW, edit from the browser or the code. It separates your assets for easy viewing, too ( you don't have to open multiple tools all the time).

Report · May 25, 2016

You can use IIS with PHP.

If you use PDO for your database connection, you might be able to go back and forth between MySQL and IIS, for instance if you were using MySQL in your development environment and IIS for production.

Dreamweaver is not a true PHP IDE, but it does have pretty good support for PHP. Good enough for little projects.