Solving technology problems, one at a time
Although I don’t use Adobe GoLive much for day-to-day work, it has certain features that are hard to find anywhere else. One of them is a rather impressive Javascript authoring environment. It gives contextual hints,
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The best browser to use to check javascript errors is Firefox, hands down. Other browsers have some error reporting, but none give you anywhere near the detailed information as Firebug, an addon to Firefox. The extensions available allow you to snoop into every aspect of your page, and into the communication between page and server.
You will need to get several Firefox extensions:
Firebug
Firebug is the one extension I can’t live without. It shows errors in javascript, css, allows you to inspect the HTML source, computed style, events, etc.
Create the navbar
Select your button, then duplicate it by selecting Duplicate or Clone from the Edit menu.
Make the rectangle into a functioning button
With the rectangle still selected (the blue handles showing), select “Convert to Symbol” from the Modify menu.
While experimenting with GoLive’s Quicktime track editing features, I opened up a movie, saved using Quicktime’s Export to MPEG-4 function. GoLive slowed to molasses speeds. Thinking I was dealing with a GoLive issue, I searched
Continue readingPHP/MySQL for the rest of us!
(originally published Spring, 2002)
Intro:
Designers now have a new tool to help them create php/mySQL-based
dynamic sites using without a steep learning curve. It is now
almost as easy to create a simple database-driven site as an html-based
one. Adobe’s GoLive 6 has improved their dynamic link module and
completely integrated it into the application. It now includes
php/mySQL support and plenty of help and templates for creating
your first database-driven website.
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“Just Enough about Unix to get into trouble…”
Determine type of server:
I’ve found that PHP scripts work more reliably on Unix servers than NT. Also, be sure that the server is not running PHP as a cgi script. It really doesn’t work as well. How do you tell?
phpinfo
Upload a little file containing this code:
<? phpinfo(); ?>
Name the file “phpinfo.php” and then view that page online in your web browser. This is a php script that returns all the information about your server environment. In the first table of information, you will find “Server API.” This should be “Apache.” If it says “CGI” you are in trouble. However some things will work fine in this setup, so it’s always worth a try.
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