Missing Dynamic Lighting Bolt on properties panel

Report · Oct 02, 2012

Hi all,

CS6 on windows XP. PHP/MySQL local site setup and working fine. Only problem, I cannot bind a recordset to a select list because the lighing bolt / dynamic icon is missing from the properties panel.

At the moment I am opeing an old CS4 version to get around this problem.

All other dynamic behavoiurs etc are working fine in CS6. Updates are done. My version of dreamweaver was purchased a few months ago via cloud membership.

Any help greatly appeciated.

Thanks

Jon

Report · Oct 02, 2012

Usually when DW suddenly starts acting up (and it hasn't been updated) I go straight for deleting the cache file: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/494811

On a related note, you may not want to allow DW6 to update to the current cloud version, it has been pretty problematic for a lot of people. It appears Adobe has made some significant UI changes that a lot of folks are having problems with. If you did update to the most recent version, this may be one of the things they removed.

Report · Oct 02, 2012

Thanks Jon, yes I did a recent update....bother!

Tried the usual delete cache etc. Thanks for the reply.

Jon

Report · Oct 06, 2012

Jon Fritz II wrote:
If you did update to the most recent version, this may be one of the things they removed.

It is.

Its removal should also serve as a warning to anyone still relying on server behaviors. When I wrote "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Training from the Source" for Adobe Press a couple of years ago, only one chapter was devoted to server behaviors. It concluded with this thought: "Judging from the decision to discontinue ADDT and not add new server behaviors to Dreamweaver CS5, the role of server behaviors is likely to decline."

I would say the clock is ticking, and time is rapidly running out for server behaviors.

Report · Oct 10, 2012

Thanks David. I am so used to using server behaviours. Whats wrong with them? I find them so quick to knock up small websites quickly. Should I be using a different method in dreamweaver to make calls to a database, bind recordsets to the page etc.

On a different note, I still have a copy of your PHP solutions book on my shelf. A super book. It sits beside Eric Meyers CCS books..

Jon

Report · Oct 10, 2012

Dreamweaver's server behaviors use deprecated code, which PHP and MySQL recommend should not be used for new projects. The other main problem is that they don't validate the user input. Also, they frequently query the database when it's not necessary. But perhaps the worst aspect is that they give a false sense of security. That's not to say they've got security loopholes, but many people use them without understanding any of the code that's generated.

Adobe's recommendation is to hand-code the PHP or to use a third-party framework. The one I used in my Dreamweaver CS5 book is Zend Framework. A new version of the Framework has just been released, so I'll probably have to update that book, although it's still valid for Zend Framework I.

Glad you like my PHP Solutions book. I'm honoured to be in Saint Eric's company.