Connecting mysql database to dreamweaver

Question

when i try to upload database which i did in mysql to the
webserver from dreamweaver by doing: view - live data in
dreamweaver i get this message: "the testing server did not execute
any of the scripts in your document.possible explanations
include:1. the testing server is not running 2. the testing server
ignores files with the php. extension. 3. your document does not
contain any scripts"
my webserver is xampp (appache + mysql) and below are the
scripts which i used:
also when i do F12 the images in the database appear gibrish
on the webserver page.
what did i do wrong ?

Answer 1

noa2 wrote:
> when i try to upload database which i did in mysql to
the webserver from
> dreamweaver by doing: view - live data in dreamweaver i
get this message: "the
> testing server did not execute any of the scripts in
your document.possible
> explanations include:1. the testing server is not
running 2. the testing server
> ignores files with the php. extension. 3. your document
does not contain any
> scripts"
It sounds as though you have not defined the testing server
correctly in
your Dreamweaver site definition.
> my webserver is xampp (appache + mysql) and below are
the scripts which i used:
> also when i do F12 the images in the database appear
gibrish on the webserver
> page.
You should not store images inside the database. Or if you
do, you need
to write a proxy script to display them. The normal procedure
is to
store the details of images (such as filename) in the
database, but keep
the images themselves in the normal file system. Use the
filename from
the recordset result to build the <img> tag to display
the image.
> mysql_connect("","","");
Using mysql_connect() with only empty strings as arguments
means you
have a totally unprotected database.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/