Coldfusion & PHP Site Possible?

I've been building a site with a small gallery in a MYSqul
database, using PHP in Dreamweaver CS3. I'm now wanting to add
credit card acceptance (via a donations page) and I'm thinking of
buying Cartweaver to help me out. I know Cartweaver supports PHP,
besides Coldfusion, but most of the Cartweaver educational training
I've found is Coldfusion.
Is it possible to build a Dreamweaver site using PHP and
Coldfusion? I'm confused about the possibility of using two server
technologies in one site.??? In Dreamweaver's Site Definition, it
appears as if only server technology can be selected. Is that true?
And, if so, is there any way around this?

You can have PHP and CF running on the same box. Install CF
as you normally would and then go in and install PHP (or vice
versa, doesn't matter).
Your httpd will route cfml pages to CF and php pages to PHP.
Works great.
Not sure how you'd deal with DW though.

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So, I kept experimenting. If I define a new PhP site and create a test document with simple PhP code, the connection to the testing server works and renders the code. It's just the existing PhP site I've copied over generates the Internal server message.
Is there something basic I'm not understanding about viewing and manipulating a PhP site created by someone else using DW CS5?

The first question: on what platform? Windows - Mac?
I only succeeded in setting up a testing server on my Mac
with PHP and MySQL after reading a book of David Powers. On Leopard
I belief there still are problems connecting PHP to MySQL.

Using BufferedReader to get Unicode data from a .php site

Hi,
Probably a rather mundane question. I'm working on an applet which uses a .php site as a proxy to get at data found in a mySQL database. It's working adequately for text consisting of standard English characters only - the only problem is that every time I read in a file, it starts with the characters "ï»¿"
It's not working at all for text using other characters - I get an incomprehensible string of characters in Java when I try that.
So my assumption is that Java does not understand that my php document is in Unicode, and is trying to read it using a different encoding system. I use unicode charaters elsewhere in this applet and have no problems with them, so I am assumign it must be an I/O error.
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Here's the relevant code as it is now:
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You probably have a 'byte order marker' ( BOM ) at the beginning of the file. You can use my BOMStripperInputStream posted in reply #7 of http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5310966 or you can just discard the BOM bytes from the InputStream before wrapping it in the BufferedReader.
Hi Sabre im facin the same probem.
bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/UTF8RDFiles/Example.txt"),"UTF-8"));
bufferedReader.readLine() returns a junk character ? at the beginning of the line.
you have instructed to use your BOMStripperInputStream posted in reply #7 of http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5310966 but i dotn know how to use it with bufferedReader because i want my method to return only a BufferedReader object.
can you suggest me how to go about it.
my code is as below need help.
public BufferedReader check(){
                 bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/UTF8RDFiles/Example.txt"),"UTF-8"));
        return bufferedReader; // need to return bufferedReader object only...since some other code needs bufferedReader ...suggest me.
i will be highly obliged if you paste the refined code.. please need your urgent help on this...
Regards
Deepak

Using DS3 or DW8 to edit php site files in design mode

Thanks in advance.
Kinda new to Dreamweaver and website design. Have a site
being designed in .php. I have downloaded the site folder, access
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Do I, can I save it as a web page/html, access it, make
changes, then save it again as php?
Or will I need to deconstruct, cut and paste together back
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Unfortunately, my site developer has no experience with any
Dreamweaver software and is not exactly eager to find answers.
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lead me in the right direction. Too much wasted time and energy
just to find out a yes/no or how and how hard answer to this
question.
Peace,
stress-freeliving

Gary,
While a novice to using dreamweaver or coding a website in
general, I am not an idiot or a novice to the art and structure of
computer, i.e., software programming. I have a degree in
engineering; in the day, I programmed in fortran and associated
languages.
So, what I have been discussing this entire thread and my
overall concern is that I want to change content pages and use a
software package such that it will not interfere with the php
coding of the pages and associated function of the site. Are all
end users required to know code to add content -- if so, we would
have millions of programmers to handle the millions of websites.
What I want to be is an end user who can efficiently add
content to his site. I don't want to have to learn how to use php
instead of continuing to research and learning on other subjects
that I wish to share; specifically, the workings of the brain, how
to learn, how stress and sleep affect our lifestyles and what we
need to do to overcome our natural tendencies towards our/my type
'A' behavior. I have spent approximately 20 hours trying to dig
through this the last 3 days, including a few hours associated to
forums without any answers, even though there have been some very
helpful people spending their time trying to understand my
predicament.
So, I don't want to have someone design a website, primarily
a site that is information and content based albeit with ecommerce
functions that will require me to dig into or learn what the php
code for bold this statement, or make this a header, or insert
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take the time to insert those specific codes in articles that I
have already written in a word document that should be able to cut
and paste and post effectively and efficiently in the average
website or blog. Is that unreasonable?
All I wanted to know is can I or how can I use the built in
coding tools in Dreamweaver in this (my opinion not the css,html
site I paid for) php designed site and upload it without wreaking
havoc on the system -- irrespective and outside of catalog listings
which should not have anything to do with pure content based pages.
Am I wrong to think that in the design of a site, that templates
for content pages and even the index page could be designed in html
and leave the database functions to the php?
The problem is that every page has a php extension. Am I
wrong to think that this ecommerce site could have been designed
with css and html that would have integrated somewhat seemlessly
with the $2000 software package???
Wisdom is trying to find the people that know more than you
do on a subject, hopefully experts, and ask them the questions in
the right mode to get an answer such that you can continue
proceeding on the same path or come up with a better plan. That is
what I have been trying to do.
So, as an expert in dreamweaver and ecommerce sites: can you
use non php based programming? Can someone design a site in
dreamweaver using OsCommerce such that an intermediate end user of
the dw can add content using the systems tools and not screw up the
structure of the site -- and do so without having to dig into the
page code every step of the way?
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OsCommerce instructions, help pages, etc.., to no avail.
It seems that I will take what has been made, complete the
project, then find some other way to efficiently and effectively
produce an ongoing dynamic content site that will sell some things
on the side.
I am trying very hard to communicate effectively with my
designer and maintain a positive, forward-thinking mode to create a
workaround to his design mode to allow me to effectively,
efficiently and without harm add to the site without having to type
a backslash in front of every daggone apostrophe or actually
<br> every carriage return in the 100+ articles I have
already written.
Can I create an html document in dreamweaver then upload it
to the php site? I was told that I needed to then give it a php
extension for it to work. What is involved in this?
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functionss?
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Migrate php site to BC

Hey team,
We've been given an opportunity to take over the administration of an existing site but want to know what steps we need to take to succesfully migrate the php site over to BC.
It's a very basic site but it does have one form page.
Thanks
Paul

A bit more info on sucking in PHP sites and replicating them in BC.
I have done a couple of php sites myself, and I find that they have a weird structure with each page in its own folder. I don't think that could be good for SEO somehow.
Overall the sites replication from PHP to BC have gone well. On one of them, I tried to rename the css file and it fell over. If I kept the CSS file the same name (which was just a bunch of numbers) it worked. Why I don't know.
As I said before mapping the sucked down site in DW and editing there is the go, as it is so clever about updating everything when you move it around.
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Don't forget that DW tells a few little lies about how things are displaying, so upload to the BC test site regularly to check if you really have a problem with anything.
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Hosting a local PHP site

Hi
After a bit of website help running a website from my mac.
I can access a local website on my mac if its in the sites folder
@http://10.0.1.???/~??????/ this is a index.html file
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Hello Ozewolf:
In order to view webpages (locally) you must set up a "root" directory for them.
I created a directory called "/Volumes/Mac Data2/Kj's Data/www"
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selected "Apache", a little window opens, I dragged and dropped the "/Volumes/Mac Data2/Kj's
Data/www" folder in the little window and pressed the select button to save it.
That's all there is to it!
Now for each website you wish to work on, put a new folder in the "www" directory and give it
a new name.
I put a folder in the www directory called "becausewelovehim.com" inside that folder I put html
files. The first file inside the folder a web server looks for is a file named "index".
In my case this url entered into my browser will display my index file:
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the file resides on my machine as:
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I upload them to the hosting provider web server.
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Xhtml in a php site

Hi
I want to make a site with php elements connectet to MySQL,
but I would also like to use Dreamweavers great abillity to write
xhtml codes in stead of just html. How do I do that? Can I start by
making a new php page and then choose xhtml somewhere or must I
start by making a new xhtml page and then ad the php elements? But
if that's the case, does the server still understand that it's a
php site that is running?
:0)
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quma wrote:
> Can I start by making a new php page and then choose
> xhtml somewhere or must I start by making a new xhtml
page and then ad the php
> elements? But if that's the case, does the server still
understand that it's a
> php site that is running?
In Dreamweaver Preferences, set Default Document Type (DTD)
in the New
Document category to XHTML. When you create a new page,
select PHP as
its type. It's the .php filename extension that tells the
server to
treat the page as PHP. The DTD setting tells Dreamweaver
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HTML or XHTML code.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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Can No Longer Open PHP Sites in FF or IE

Just installed the Trial of DW8 and now site URL's ending in
PHP won't open in either Firefox or IE.
Uninstalled DW8 (Which removed the file association) and even
though the associations are
gone the websites still won't open.
If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated
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Jaime

sounds fishy. link please.
topaz4206 wrote:
> Just installed the Trial of DW8 and now site URL's
ending in PHP won't open in
> either Firefox or IE.
>
> Uninstalled DW8 (Which removed the file association) and
even though the
> associations are
> gone the websites still won't open.
>
> If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks,
> Jaime
>

Check in check out in Dreamweaver CS5 with php site

I created a new site for a client that has about 160 pages, three user login levels, site security, php, forms, . . . The client has a staff member who will make updates to pages with changing content but now wants access to the entire site so she can change wording on other pages as well - she's their new communications coordinator and it certainly makes sense to me. But I'm worry about giving her access to the entire site - I've since learned about check in and check out in Dreamweaver. Since I can't just throw pages in a directory for her to access via ftp (have set that up for one staff member creating gis maps), I'm wondering if this check in check out option is the better way to go for us.
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Digital Ink LLC wrote:
What's common practice for this?
This situation really needs a proper Content Management System (CMS): Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Expression Engine all come to mind.
She's a content contributor, you're the system admin. She needs a bulletproof browser-based editing environment to do her thing without worrying about anything else.
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Using Dreamweaver and Check In/Check Out is just going to create one issue after another.
The current solution was probably adequate in the past but it's reaching the limits of its scalability. It's really time for a new solution.
Have you considered a CMS?

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Greetings! I accidentally deleted my site definition in DW CS4 and now can't remember how to define the url of the site's root folder. The site displays properly in DW's File tab and the pages display properly in design view but when I F12 to display in IE8 I get this; Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 404 localhost 12/21/11 19:49:44 Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 The site is located in c:\xampp\htdocs\Milica I thought the url was http://localhost/xampp/htdocs/Milica but it doesn't work. Any suggestions? Do I have to change something in the xampp settings? Is the url wrong? Thanks!

The HTDocs folder on a XAMPP installation is where the localhost is served from. So:
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ColdFusion Developer site for sale

Post removed: Site Sold

Two questions - why are you moving away from cf development
and, are
exisiting clients part of the deal?
"spindiggy" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:estd25$338$[email protected]..
> Hello,
> I am moving away from ColdFusion Development. The site
design,
> hotfuzion.com,
> hotfuzion.net, the cms and shopping cart are all for
sale as a package
> deal.
> I'm looking for around $500.00 for all. If interested,
let me know.
> [email protected]
>
> Chris
>

Dreamweaver 8 with ASP, Coldfusion, & PHP

I am new to php and I am trying to work thru Dreamweaver 8
with ASP, Coldfusion and PHP Training from the Source. I have a
real simple form. A user enters their first and last name then
clicks the submit button. The form is then processed with a script
using $_GET[first_name]; $_GET[last_name]; and it should display
"Thank you, first_name last_name, for using my form." But the page
show the html with a Notice: Undefined index: first_name in
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<?php echo $_GET['last_name']; ?>, for filling out my
form.</p>. This was accomplished using the binding panel in
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someone tell me what this means? It worked like it is supposed to
work when I had just the first name.

Charles67 wrote:
> I am new to php and I am trying to work thru Dreamweaver
8 with ASP,
> Coldfusion and PHP Training from the Source.
I don't have a copy of that book. I wrote my own instead. ;-)
> Notice: Undefined index: first_name in
> C:\htdocs\newland\test_form_processor.php on line 9.
Line nine is - <p>Thank
> you, <?php echo $_GET['first_name']; ?> <?php
echo $_GET['last_name']; ?>, for
> filling out my form.</p>.
It means that the first_name variable isn't being passed from
the form.
PHP is case-sensitive. Your form needs to look something like
this:
<form name="form1" id="form1" method="get"
action="test_form_processor.php">
<p>First name: <input type="text" name="first_name"
id="first_name" /></p>
<p>Last name: <input type="text" name="last_name"
id="last_name" /></p>
<input type="submit" name="submit1" id="submit1"
value="Send" />
</form>
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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I am really confused, where I can start, what are the steps? is it need to convert all PHP to Ajax? is it need to change all graphics & graphic menus?
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thanks

Have you installed an Apache Testing Server on your machine yet? If you're using Windows, you can install Wamp or Xampp server with phpMyAdmin to help you manage the MySql databases on your local machine.
Setting up a PHP environment in Dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_php.html
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