Adobe releases PHP hotfix for Dreamweaver 8.0.2

At long last, Adobe has released a hotfix for a number of serious issues affecting the PHP MySQL server model in Dreamweaver 8.0.2. Unfortunately, you can’t just go to the Adobe site and download it. You need to contact Adobe support and ask for it. Officially, the reason is because Adobe wants to know how many people have been affected by the problems that it solves, and it wants to check that the solution “works for them”.

Anybody using my book Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 should get the hotfix pronto, as it solves two problems affecting Chapters 9 and 12:

• Without the hotfix, Dreamweaver 8.0.2 strips CONCAT() out of SQL queries.
• Changes in the way PHP 5.1.4 and above handles XML resulted in the XSL Transformatiion server behavior reporting incorrectly that the source was not a valid XML document.

The hotfix also solves a couple of other important problems, so if you have Dreamweaver 8.0.2 or have been putting off updating to 8.0.2, I strongly urge you to get in touch with Adobe support and get the hotfix. You can find full details in this technote on the Adobe site.

17 comments August 28th, 2006