Aug292006Dreamweaver 8 and PHP 5.1.4 Busted
There’s a new set of technical problems with Dreamweaver. It probably only affects a small number of you–those building database-driven sites with PHP/MySQL and only if you’re running PHP 5.1.4 (this is the version you’re most likely running if you’ve recently installed XAMPP or MAMP as a testing server.) So if neither of those apply to you, you can skip the rest of this post.
For those still with me, Dreamweaver has some serious problems with PHP 5.1.4. For example, the XSL transformation server behavior discussed in Chapter 24 of my book, just doesn’t work! So the tutorial for that Chapter may not work for you at all. In addition, in some cases simple recordsets won’t work either. There are a few other problems on top of that which are discussed in a technical note on the Adobe site.
At any rate, there’s a fix for the problem, but Adobe won’t post it on their Web site! You have to contact technical support to get the fix…I’ve been on the phone for about 25 minutes 35 minutes now (I was disconnected twice) waiting to get an answer to this.
<<time passes>>
After talking to 5 different tech support people, I will supposedly get the fix shortly via e-mail…
<<pause while I wait>>
One hour later…
<<pause while I wait>>
Two hours later…
<<pause while I wait>>
Oh well, I’ve got to get going…
