DMXzone are pleased to announce the release of updates and support tutorials for their Smart Image Processor PHP, File Genie PHP and Pure PHP Upload extensions.
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It's turning out to be a busy couple of weeks for product updates. Check out these snippets to find out more about XP SP2, Flash Version 7.2 and the latest Mozilla updates.
PHP 5 has finally been released. A few small bugs were fixed from Release Candidate 3 and it's now official. What's in it – well for starters there's a new Zend engine, new XML support, a new MySQL extension, and you get SQLite (a SQL database engine that can be embedded directly into your applications) bundled in the download.
Check out Allan Kent's guide to installing PHP5 on Windows.
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SQLite: new PHP-bundled database
SQLite 2: The Killer Features (and the sadly lacking)>
Get all the details from the PHP Home page >>
Media Elements 2004, taking place on 11th and 12th of November, is the greatest New Media and Online Communication event in the Netherlands.
Here you'll learn everything about the application of 3D, Video and Flash to the professional market from some top international gurus.
The speaker list is being finalised, but includes Billy Bussey, Samuel Wan and Ola Bergner. For a sneak preview checkout the Media Elements 2004 schedule.
Read for free the trials and tribulations of our intrepid tech team as they wade through 6000 articles-worth of tag spag hell, nested table horror, and emerge victorious with a fully validating CSS and XHTML site that loads twice as fast, renders better and is more maintainable!
Following on from his free tutorial on building a Content Management System with Server Behaviours and the Advanced HTML Editor, Matt shows how build a site that allows users to upload their own files, and rate those files. There's also a password-protected moderator's area so that you can be sure that all files can be checked before being made "live". This free tutorial is suitable for beginners and uses only built-in Dreamweaver server behaviors and the DMXzone Pure ASP / ASP.NET Upload Extensions!
As DMXzone got bigger and bigger, so was the HTML we used to keep all the articles, tutorials and news. It was getting more bloated than Vegas Elvis with gas.
Now we are totally rewriting the code so that it is fully CSS and XHTML based!
No more nasty tables and rubbish html code – all clean XHTML and CSS compliant code now! Not only did we improve our standards-compliance, but we also cut down the page size - the homepage went from 100Kb to 40Kb XHTML!
Phase 1 is completed: getting the homepage sorted out, and writing effective CSS to replicate the old more-nested-tables-than-a-tornado-in-IKEA layout. In fact, we've done better than replicate it - it looks better than it ever did in the modern browsers.
There's a few CSS strangenesses and "charms" to iron out, and some of the XHTML doesn't validate on the sub-pages, but it's a start - and, from the emails we've received from users praising the increased download speed and happy whistling of our server, we think it's been a good start.
But we've still got a lot more work to do; the pages with tutorials still need work as the HTML is pulled from a content management system, so we need to retrofit the code in there. It's been tested on all major Mac and Windows browsers, but there's a lot of code and a lot of pages, so if you see any strange layout anomalies, please drop us a line telling us which browser and operating system you're using.
Meanwhile, click on the logos above to see how we validate!
In this free, 20 page tutorial, Matt Machell shows you how to use Dreamweaver server behaviours and the DMXzone Advanced HTML Editor extension to build a password-protected Content Management Solution for a web site, that allows normal users to read news or text or whatever you choose to put on your site, while users with the correct password can add or amend the text using an intuitive word processor-like administration system - so your clients can maintain their own web sites without having to know HTML and without risking breaking the look and feel of the site!
In this free article, Sergio Villarreal shows how to use CSS to make drop shadows, in a way that works across all modern browsers and conforms to Web Standards.
This article was originally published by A List Apart and is reproduced by kind permission. It's copyright © 1998–2004 A List Apart Magazine, Happy Cog Studios, and Sergio Villarreal.
With this movie we will show you how to setup user permissions and access levels using DMXzone Security Provider PHP/ASP. 
With this movie we will show you how to secure your database actions using DMXzone Security Provider PHP/ASP. 
With this movie we will show you how to use the Database Security Provider on your website. In order to use this option you need to have DMXzone Database Updater PHP/ASP installed in your Dreamweaver. 
