This course from expert developer and Adobe Certified Trainer Candyce Mairs walks you through the process of installing and setting up a complete testing environment for dynamic website development. Then you’ll work in that environment to build a complete dynamic, data-driven website.

The contents of this course include

Introduction
This chapter will introduce you to the environment we will be setting up in order to work with dynamic websites and the topics that will be covered in the course.

Setting Up the Development Environment
In this chapter we will set up a complete development testing environment so we can begin to create and view PHP pages.

Working with Server-Side Code
This chapter covers PHP coding basics and shows you the various options for previewing your pages within Dreamweaver. You’ll learn how to work in PHP and create variables to use in your web pages.

Passing Data Between Pages
In this chapter you’ll learn more about working in dynamic pages and how to pass data from one web page to another. We’ll also look at working with dynamic features in Dreamweaver in order to speed up development.

Working with a Database
This chapter looks at the basics of databases and how to use features in Dreamweaver to create SQL the easy way.

Creating Data-Driven Pages
Server behaviors are a feature built into Dreamweaver to make working with dynamic pages easier. This chapter will show you some server behaviors and how you can use them in your web pages.

Dynamic Forms
Forms are the only way to gather data from a user. In this chapter we’ll create forms in Dreamweaver and use web-based forms to insert and update data within a database.

Conclusion
In this chapter you’ll get some closing thoughts from the author and some suggestions on where to go from here.