Like you, I'm a seasoned Domino developer who has fallen under the spell of
PHP/MySQL.
For anyone out there who is ready to take the next step with PHP/MySQL, I would
thoroughly recommend the latest version of Macromedia Dreamweaver (MX 2004).
It fully supports PHP/MySQL and includes some terrific PHP "Server Behaviours"
that really help to cut down on the amount of hand coding that you need to do.
My favourites are the "User Authentication" behaviours : "Log In User",
"Restrict Access To Page", etc. You just point and click to add them to your
web pages.
It's not quite as straight forward as Domino development, but's it's pretty
close. You still need to roll up your sleeves and tinker with the PHP code
every now and again, but that's half the fun !
Great article !
Like you, I'm a seasoned Domino developer who has fallen under the spell of PHP/MySQL.
For anyone out there who is ready to take the next step with PHP/MySQL, I would thoroughly recommend the latest version of Macromedia Dreamweaver (MX 2004).
It fully supports PHP/MySQL and includes some terrific PHP "Server Behaviours" that really help to cut down on the amount of hand coding that you need to do.
My favourites are the "User Authentication" behaviours : "Log In User", "Restrict Access To Page", etc. You just point and click to add them to your web pages.
It's not quite as straight forward as Domino development, but's it's pretty close. You still need to roll up your sleeves and tinker with the PHP code every now and again, but that's half the fun !
Download a trial version and give it a go !