I Can Program! Well, Sort Of.

I recently wrote about Dreamweaver MX 2004, and how I was still impressed with the product, but the learning curve was steep. And how I tried Flash, and was totally and completely lost.

Well, being the good reporter, and product evaluator, I figured, maybe I was too harsh. So I went back to Flash MX 2004 and tried it again! I had a concept, I made plans and I crashed and burned.

Flash is not made for me. Sorry Macromedia. I know of others who make it sing like a Stradivarius, but I, can't make it even croak like a frog!

However! I repeat, however!

Dreamweaver 2004 MX let me create and write PHP code! Here I am truly impressed! I am not a programmer. Oh, I can take a program, hack it a little, but I would never, never call myself a programmer. That's not to say I can't get SQL to do what I want (as long as it isn't Microsoft's version " what's going on there? but I digress).An organization I belong to, wanted to put up a poll. So I created my Myself database, and then went to Dreamweaver MX 2004 to create the Insertion Form. After an hour or so of trying to get a Data Connection - (my fault, mea culpa, mea culpa; I don't read too well sometimes, and gave Dreamweaver the wrong information " duh!) it finally connected.

I then used the wizard, and presto-chango, I had a working form. I also wrote a report, and added some other useful information into my database, like IP address and current date and time, all using PHP and Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Hey, I can program, I can program!