Extensions?

[Arvin Meyer]

Complete newbie questions:

1. Are there any Dreamweaver server extensions similar to FrontPage
extensions which must be installed on the server to make forms work
correctly?

2. Where can I get these extensions if they are required?

3. Do they conflict with any FrontPage extensions running on a Win2k IIS 5.0
server?

Thanks,

Arvin Meyer

[Tom Muck]

"Arvin Meyer" <arvinm@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Complete newbie questions:
>
> 1. Are there any Dreamweaver server extensions similar to FrontPage
> extensions which must be installed on the server to make forms work
> correctly?

No. There are some extensions which require some server-side scripting to
work, but it is completely different than Front Page.

> 2. Where can I get these extensions if they are required?

Most Dreamweaver extensions are completely self-contained, or they tell you
if they require another component or script. Most extensions simply insert
code into your page. The extension itself is like a ZIP file that adds
functionality to your personal copy of Dreamweaver.

> 3. Do they conflict with any FrontPage extensions running on a Win2k IIS

5.0

> server?

No.


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[darrel]

> 1. Are there any Dreamweaver server extensions similar to FrontPage

> extensions which must be installed on the server to make forms work
> correctly?

Front Page and FP Extensions are an awful set of watered down, buggy server
scripts.

DW is really just an HTML editor, it doesn't deal with anything running on
the server. If you want to process your forms, you need to have some sort of
forms processing on the server. That may be ASP code, PHP, perl, what have
you, but it's not something that DW provides for you out-of-the-box.

-Darrel

[Joe {RoastHorse}]

DWMX and ultraDev do it out of the box...

joe



"darrel" <darrel.austin@courts.state.mn.us> wrote in message
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> > 1. Are there any Dreamweaver server extensions similar to FrontPage
> > extensions which must be installed on the server to make forms work
> > correctly?

>
> Front Page and FP Extensions are an awful set of watered down, buggy

server

> scripts.
>
> DW is really just an HTML editor, it doesn't deal with anything running on
> the server. If you want to process your forms, you need to have some sort

of

> forms processing on the server. That may be ASP code, PHP, perl, what have
> you, but it's not something that DW provides for you out-of-the-box.
>
> -Darrel
>
>

[darrel]

> DWMX and ultraDev do it out of the box...

Right. DW, itself, does not.

-Darrel