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NibCrom
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So I bought a book to help me learn PHP. The CD it came with to install PHP didn't work. I downloaded MAMP and tried to get it to sync with Dreamweaver. Didn't work. I tried to get my Web server to process the PHP in Dreamweaver. Couldn't get that to work either.
This is the video I followed to sync MAMP with Dreamweaver.
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/phplocalsitemac/
I followed it exactly and... nothing. I'm out of ideas at this point. I thought developing PHP with MAMP would be the easiest route. Is there something else I should try?
Please help me get started so I can actually learn some PHP! Thanks!
This is the video I followed to sync MAMP with Dreamweaver.
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/phplocalsitemac/
I followed it exactly and... nothing. I'm out of ideas at this point. I thought developing PHP with MAMP would be the easiest route. Is there something else I should try?
Please help me get started so I can actually learn some PHP! Thanks!
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http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
I used xampp while testing out content management doodads and dipping my toes in html/css/php/lol/omg, and I was really happy with the package and how simple it was to get running out of the box. This was all for windows-based stuff, so I can't speak any further than the link claiming its for Mac. Good luck! I've always wanted to get deeper into that depth of the pool but feared my lack of visual artistry would guarantee it'd be wasted.
Gatsby - I'll give that a try, thanks.
Just so we're clear, you're creating your .php file that contains phpinfo() and you're uploading it to your website and then viewing that page in a browser?
I have a feeling that's not what you're doing and instead using Dreamweaver's built-in browser to render the page, which won't work for you because it doesn't have a local PHP engine.
I would upload your file and hit F12 to have DW open a browser to that page (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) and see if you get better results.
This is the error I'm getting:
And these are the settings I used:
Amor - The phpinfo page works when I manually upload it my Web host. Shouldn't it work in Dreamweaver as well? That's why I put in the ftp info for my site, so that Dreamweaver would render the files on my Web server and return the results in Dreamweaver. Correct me if I'm wrong!
G'luck.
Is that the root of your web server?
If so, you should have http://localhost/ just, the additional MyWebSite would have it looking for the files under MyWebSite/MyWebSite.
When I go to Live View it shows:
And I think it's supposed to show something like this:
I tried some other PHP functions and they didn't work.
Right now you're getting the default/admin files, that are under the XAMPP directory.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_php.html#articlecontentAdobe_numberedheader_1
It's silly that the video tutorial never mentioned anything about reconfiguring MAMP.
Any Wordpress / Comicpress Gurus out there? How do I eliminate the comments and the calendar from the layout?
It's in the comicpress options when you log in, or in the wordpress options. For the calendar, if it's the widget on the sidebar, just put something in the sidebar. The sidebar.php file has script that basically says if there's no widget in the sidebar, show the calendar. You can remove that or just put something there, like a comic nav or a blank text field widget
For the comments, just turn them off in wordpress discussion settings or go to comicpress options and disable the comic blog, that should do it. I think you can also turn off comments there too.
1. How do I add some padding to the left of the comic title?
2. How do I get rid of that horizontal rule?
If you want to PM me I can talk to you on google chat or something, because comicpress has a lot of little "quirks" that can be a pain in the ass.
also, please for the love of god tell me you're using a child theme and not modifying the core comicpress style.css....
What's the reasoning behind not modifying the CSS in the parent theme? In case the developer has an update to the parent theme? Or just so you don't badly mess up the layout and not have a backup to fix it?
If you google Frumph.net comicpress child themes he's got a good handful of them you can just plug in and tweak to your specifics without having to create one from scratch.
And it does look like that, until I change the size of the site under comicpress options from 3 column (980 px) to 2 column (780 px). Then it looks like this:
It changes the transparent pixels to white somehow.
In the header upload page, it says that "Images of exactly 980 × 120 pixels will be used as-is." It says that even when I change the size of the site to 780 px.
I try to upload headers of different sizes, but I haven't had any luck with them. Anyone know how to fix this?
Also, stick with the 3 column layout. The 980px is MUCH better for site design in general, and you can change the width of one of the sidebars or the blog to make a 2 column layout but use the bigger width.
Looks like automatic resizing of the file before sending it to the browser. As in, it takes the image you provided, runs it through Imagemagick or such, and gives the end user the 780px wide version. This avoids issues with how browsers handle downscaling differently/shittily.
If the automated code isn't done right though, it might lose the transparency info as you see here.
That would be my guess as to what is going on, given that I haven't ever used the theme myself.
New problem, I get this when I try to import my database to my live Web server.
Any idea how to fix this?
However, now when I go to my site, none of the links to other pages work. For example, when I click on "Previous Comic" or "Archive", I get a page not found error.
Also, there's a Comicpress setting for changing the header size, so just thought I'd share that.
Thanks for all the help, guys! My site is up and running!