• From: Germany
  • Registered: 2006-10-26
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Topic: Dreamweaver as development tool

Hi I just started a couple days ago to develop a solution with punBB. Firstly I developed everything online via the internet, but at Monday our neighbour cut the telephone line, so I decided to set up a offline development environment. Every thing under Win 2000 because I have no experience with Linux. With the XAMPP Solution  I needed 36 hours to get the php, Apache and mysql systems stable, with some little problems still, but I could work now, that's fine.  Exception is that the imported punbb cries for the old host, I don't know why and where this parameter is stored, but still that will be a question of time or helpful people here.

So fare so good, now I decided to use a different editor because the one I'm using php Coder still has some bugs and quits several times.
I have a licence for dreamweaver and now ma question:

Does somebody has experience to set-up the punbb environment within dreamweaver, so that I can test the solution with the different browsers, also I will start to develop some additional mods and plugins in the future. What I understood is that dreamweaver could help me to generate different front-end solutions quicker then doing it with a other editor, is this right?

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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: Dreamweaver as development tool

Hey,

I myself develop in Dreamweaver, and yes, it makes some things easier (especially the code view does wonders... *drool*).
I find it odd that it took you 36 hours to set up XAMPP, when I install it it's usually: run the installer, install everything as service, start it and it works tongue

Now, for the PunBB environment: just create a new site (in the site manager); pointing to the folder you PunBB is stored in wink Nothing more really...

And for the config file: config.php. You'll need to change (for a non-modified XAMPP) the hostname to "localhost", the db user to "root", the db pass to blank ("") and maybe change the DB name, although you can keep that the same (if you just export your DB on your host and import it locally). Only thing that needs changing then is the base URL.

Hope it helps, if you need more help (be it with Dreamweaver) you can contact me on MSN (elbekko@gmail.com) or Skype (elbekko - but don't call) smile

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Re: Dreamweaver as development tool

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  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2006-10-26
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Re: Dreamweaver as development tool

There should be a possibility to exchange with the hosting system, therefore you have to establish at site Definition an application Server. Dis you use this functionality, too?

If I have to define the application server I could choice  None, ASP2.0,  JSP 1.0, and Cold Fusion 4.0. As I understand it correctly none of the three I have to use for punbb, but the system wants to have one choice, what did you do. There is no way to say that the file ending should be php. so cant you use the upload and download functionality therefore?

second question block  with database (Mysql) integration?

Did you use the database integration ?

If yes I will have some additional questions

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5 Reply by elbekko (edited by elbekko 2006-11-09 21:22)

  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: Dreamweaver as development tool

Err... what version are you using? Dreamweaver 8 supports PHP tongue
Here are some screenshots of what it should look like:

http://icstrategy.midgetforhire.com/Various/PunBB/DW%20Site/Local_Info.jpg
http://icstrategy.midgetforhire.com/Various/PunBB/DW%20Site/Remote_Info.jpg
http://icstrategy.midgetforhire.com/Various/PunBB/DW%20Site/Testing_Server.jpg

EDIT: I just noticed that I didn't change my image folder to the correct path tongue But it doesn't matter that much really...

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2006-10-26
  • Posts: 88

Re: Dreamweaver as development tool

You are perfect,
So I have to get a new Dreamweaver because I have 4.0 installed. I got it a while ago, installed it but never used it.
Thanks for your remarks.

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