The Essential Guide
to Dreamweaver CS4
with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
David Powers
The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4
with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
Copyright © 2009 by David Powers
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Credits
Lead Editor
Ben Renow-Clarke
Technical Reviewer
Tom Muck
Editorial Board
Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner,
Ewan Buckingham, Tony Campbell, Gary Cornell,
Jonathan Gennick, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie,
Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Ben Renow-Clarke,
Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh
Project Manager
Beth Christmas
Copy Editors
Kim Wimpsett, Marilyn Smith
Associate Production Director
Kari Brooks-Copony
Production Editor
Kelly Winquist
Compositor
Molly Sharp
Proofreader
Patrick Vincent
Indexer
Julie Grady
Artist
April Milne
Interior and Cover Designer
Kurt Krames
Manufacturing Director
Tom Debolski
CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
About the Author ......................................xx
Acknowledgments
.....................................xxi
Introduction
.........................................xxii
Chapter 1: Dreamweaver’s New Look—More than Skin Deep
....1
Chapter 2: Setting Up a Site in Dreamweaver
................59
Chapter 3: Creating a Web Page and Adding Content
........103
Chapter 4: Using CSS to Add a Touch of Style
..............155
Chapter 5: Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box
.......195
Chapter 6: Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar
...233
Chapter 7: Using Spry Dynamic Effects and Components
.....257
Chapter 8: Going Beyond the Basics with Spry and Ajax
......307
Chapter 9: Building Online Forms and Validating Input
.......371
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Chapter 10: Introducing the Basics of PHP .................425
Chapter 11: Using PHP to Process a Form
..................459
Chapter 12: Reducing Your Workload with PHP Includes
......503
Chapter 13: Preserving Design Integrity with Templates
and InContext Editing
..................................539
Chapter 14: Storing User Records in a Database
............583
Chapter 15: Validating Database Input and User Authentication
...637
Chapter 16: Working with Custom Forms and Multiple Tables
...683
Chapter 17: Handling Checkbox Groups, Searches, and Dates
...743
Chapter 18: Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML
...805
Chapter 19: Using Spry Data Sets to Refresh Content
........843
Chapter 20: Deploying Your Site on the Internet
............889
Appendix: Generating XML with PHP
.....................905
Index
...............................................917
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