Need alternative to Dreamweaver CC

Question

I've been using DW for many years now and building great dynamic web sites for clients and employers. Now, with DW CC, we loose all those tools for building dynamic web sites! Yes, I know that I can get those depricated tools back for a little while longer, but that doesn't help when I need the tools themselves to be updated.
I've spent the past week trying to come up with a way to use PHP and SQL Server 2012 to build a site. Purchased DMXzone database connection tool and it worked but it failed... I can't use it without spending a small fortune to purchase more of their extensions and if did, it wouldn't provide the same easy development experience I enjoyed before someone at Adobe decided to abandon us.
So, anyone know of a good alternative? Microsoft has stopped development of their Expression Web 4 and I'm not going to get behind another tool that will soon be useless.
Very Frustrated with Adobe...
Pete

Answer 1

Hello Teodor and thank you for responding. I am very frustrated with Adobe and Dreamweaver and probably should have held off posting until I cooled down but that doesn't change anything and you deserver a reply.
I am not a programmer. I've spent the past 20 years designing and building online training materials using other tools, outside of Adobe, but have used Dreamweaver frequently to build database driven web sites to help on large projects.
In my current job I am a technical writer and write the maintenance manual for the airplane my employer makes. I told my employer that I could build him a tool using Dreamweaver and SQL Server to track a complicated process in our company. I've done this in the past for other employers using, what is now, older technology. Unfortunately at the time, I didn't know that Adobe has decided to stop supporting general web development that included database connectivity. While reading some blog on Adobe.com about the "update" in DW CC, they mentioned DMXzone. I went to your site and thought it sounded like just the thing.
I didn't realize that your tool set is broken up into so many smaller pieces and told my employer I needed no more than $200 to purchase the one extension I thought I needed. I puchased the DMXzone Database Connector PHP and installed it. Of course, it immediately made the necessary connections and all seemed great. That is why I said it worked.
The very first page of this wonderful site I promised requires a form with a drop-down menu where the user selects their name. I spent several hours trying to figure out if I could populate that drop-down menu with the results of a query prepared with the DMXzone Database Connector PHP extension. I figured out how to build the query and see the results I expected. But couldn't figure out how to get it into the dropdown menu item. That is why I said it failed... I couldn't get what I needed with just that one extension. Looking back, I think I was expecting this to magically enable all the database tools in DW that I was used to. As I said, I am not a coder but with the right user manual that included examples, I could make this work. Your manual didn't cover this specific subject.
If I am wrong about how I tried to use the DMXzone Database Connector please let me know. If I am not kicked off this project, I will eventually need to be able to do this one task along with many others. But I don't know how many other extensions I would need to purchase. I didn't even see that you had a 'package' deal on your web site until after I encountered the first message from the Database Connector saying that I needed another extension to make a repeating region and to format the data. I also need to write updates to the database and I'm guessing I will need another extension for that. I really wish I had known this before purchasing the first extension because I would have told my employer I needed a larger budget.
I spent a lot of time looking through the manual but didn't find what I needed. Why does everyone seem to think that videos and screen captures are all we need to understand a new piece of software? I am well aware of how much work it is to write a comprehensive user manual with lots of examples and background inforamtion. If you want to pick up the ball that Adobe has dropped, I think you need to write a "Missing Manual" sort of document to go along with your tools. Hey, need a technical writer to help with that? :-)
Thanks,
Pete