Download Introduction to HTML and Dreamweaver, Part C

An Introduction to
Dreamweaver and PHP
Part C: Setting Dreamweaver up
to handle file transferring FTP
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Using Dreamweaver to transfer
documents to web server
• The document must be sent to a machine
that is both a web server and a php server.
• A standard way to move files around on
the Internet is to use FTP (File Transfer
Protocol).
• This can be done using a browser or an
FTP client (such as WS_FTP) or within
Dreamweaver.
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Go to Site/Manage Sites …, click on the
New … button and click on Site from the list
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Give the site a name and click Next.
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Then click the Yes radio button, choose PHP MySQL from
the drop-down list and click Next.
Select the Edit locally, then upload radio button. Then click on the
folder icon and choose a (local) folder for the site.
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Select FTP from the drop-down list
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Fill in the information regarding the FTP
connection. (Below shows my page on the alpha.)
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Click the Test Connection button
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Enter the URL of the root and click on
Test URL.
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Check-in and check-out is used to manage a site with multiple authors.
We’ll skip this feature here. Review information and click Done.
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Click Done on the Manage Sites dialog box.
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Now under the files tab, you can view the site (either local or remote).
Or click on the Expand/Collapse button to see both.
The Expand/Collapse
button
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If Connection lost, click on the Connects to
remote host button. (May need to click on +
to expand folders.)
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Use the Put files button to upload the files to
the remote site. Click Yes on dialog box.
The page has dependent files (the image files)
and Dreamweaver will send those as well.
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Click on the Expand/Collapse button.
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Go to File/Preview in Browser. Select
Browser
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View/Source to see the code.
Code the results from View/Source in browser.
Note that we see no PHP code here. Before the web server responded
with the file, the PHP server executed the PHP code (on the server side)
which printed the date. It is this edited file that was sent by the web server
to the client.
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References
• PHP for the World Wide Web, 2nd edition,
Larry Ullman, Peachpit Press, 2004.
• http://www.webopedia.com
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