Marius Zaharia

The major breakthrough in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is visual authoring with XML data. You can now perform both client-side and server-side XSL transformations in a snap. I covered XML syntax in one of my previous articles. I also presented the XSL syntax and covered the differences between a server-side and a client-side transformation in my article, XSL Overview. Finally, in the article, Consuming a Remote RSS Feed with Dreamweaver 8, I show you how to consume a remote feed in your site, using the XSL Transformation server behavior in Dreamweaver 8. This article explains how to install and configure XML and XSL support for your web server, in order to be able to perform server-side XSL transformations. The article covers the configuration of PHP application servers - versions 4 and 5 - for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems. In a server-side XSL tran... (more)

Building a Forum with Macromedia Dreamweaver From Adobe

Forums (message boards) are a great way to share ideas, debate on current issues, or offer technical assistance to your clients. A forum can really help you build up a community around your website, increase traffic, and improve communication with your clients. Although you can find a wealth of free forum applications out there, which you can install and customize for your needs, this article teaches you how to build your own forum from scratch to make it fit your specific requirements. (You can view this article in its original www.macromedia.com/devnet.) We will walk you from ... (more)

Building a Forum with Macromedia Dreamweaver From Adobe Part 2

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we taught you how to pull information from a database in order to set up a forum front end and how to style it with CSS. In this article, you will see how easy it is to build a user authentication system for your forum. Setting Up User Authentication In the following sections of this tutorial, you will use ImpAKT to build a user authentication system for your forum. You need authentication to prevent pranksters from posting a load of garbage to your forum and getting away with it. If users want to post messages to the forum, they must register an acco... (more)

Consuming a Remote RSS 1.0 Feed with Dreamweaver 8

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a major breakthrough for XML development, just as Dreamweaver MX 2004 was for CSS. The development team behind this release decided to offer people the entry-point support they needed to tackle XML and XSL-based web projects. The approach Dreamweaver 8 takes to XML and XSL is no surprise: Visual XSL transformations using drag and drop from the Bindings panel. Easy-to-use objects accessible from the Insert bar. Code highlighting and code completion functions for the more experienced developers. Jen Taylor presents a brief overview of the new XML/XSL fe... (more)