Comments on: Adobe releases PHP hotfix for Dreamweaver 8.0.2

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:33:07 +0000

It means that you have a gap between the opening and closing textarea tags in the underlying XHTML. The tags must have no whitespace inbetween, although you can put PHP code there. Make sure there is no whitespace between the textarea tags and the opening and closing PHP tags.

By: liam

liam — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:24:24 +0000

Very Happy owner of PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web design made easy. Great book, i’ve already started adapting the sample code to suit my needs.

One query though. Chp 5, Contact10.php
If i tab into the Comments Text field, i dont get the text cursor at the start but about 20 characters in, which means i have to hold backspace for a while before i can type from the start. if there a quick fix?

sorry if this is not the right place to be asking questions, but i didnt know how else to contact you. thanks for your time.
liam

By: David

David — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:00:00 +0000

Thanks, Caedmon. Rather than download the ZIP file directly. I suggest that people use the link that I gave in my original post and follow-ups: http://www.adobe.com/go/b6c2ae2a. That takes you to the Adobe technote with details of the problems that the hotfix corrects. It's always a good idea to read technotes first because any changes will be listed there, whereas they might for be reflected here.

By: Caedmon

Caedmon — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:38:34 +0000

The fix can be downloaded here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/b6c2ae2a/DW802_HotFix-0_6_0.zip

By: David

David — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:02:01 +0000

Hi, Phil. I hope that you have now received the PHP hotfix directly from my contact in Adobe. I stirred up a little debate in a private forum, and hopefully Adobe will finally get its act together on this. More details here together with advice for anyone else trying to get the hotfix.

By: Musings of a code slave » Getting the Dreamweaver PHP hotfix - some progress

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:54:26 +0000

[...] I pointed to the slew of complaints in response to my original blog post. Fortunately, Phil Adkins had reproduced the response he received from Adobe Customer Service. An Adobe representative quickly replied that Phil had got in touch with the wrong department. It wasn’t Customer Service, but Technical Support he should have contacted. Quite frankly, this is nonsense. When customers get in touch with a company, they frequently have no idea which department they’re dealing with. It’s the job of Customer Service to put them in touch with the right one. [...]

By: David

David — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:41:34 +0000

This is quite frankly unacceptable. I have tried contacting people directly involved with Dreamweaver inside Adobe, but got no reply, either. I’ll try again.

By: Phil Adkins

Phil Adkins — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:48:26 +0000

After a pain in the a** attempt to contact Adobe about the issue I was finally â€œallowedâ€ to ask for the update. Several weeks later, I was graced with this response.

â€ Hello Phil,

Thank you for contacting Adobe Customer Service. For your records your
Customer ID is 115183298.

All available updates for Dreamweaver 8 are located at
http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/downloads_updaters.html
For more information on AdobeÂ® products or services please visit us at:
http://www.adobe.com or contact Adobe customer services at 1 (800)
833-6687. Customer Service Representatives are available 6:00am-8:00pm
PST, 7 days a week. Please reference your Customer ID for quicker
service.

Thank you,
Marci G.â€

Obviously, it is not on the regular updater site or I would not be asking support for it.

By: David

David — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:54:26 +0000

Glad you like the book, Mario. The information about CONCAT has been on the book's updates and corrections page for many months. In fact, it went up there just a few days after the release of Dreamweaver 8.0.2. The difference between the updated files and the original ones is also explained. The original files are for Dreamweaver 8.0.0 and 8.0.1. The updated ones use the code created by Dreamweaver 8.0.2. Since there has been a lot of controversy about the 8.0.2 updater, many people have not updated (although that's not an option for anyone buying Dreamweaver in the past few months). As a result, I have asked friends of ED to provide both versions. You will find an explanation of the differences on the updates page I've linked to earlier. There's also an updates page elsewhere on this site. Hope that clears things up for you.

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:40:23 +0000

Good book on PHP/Dreamweaver btw! I bought it retail after reading comments on Amazon. thanks David.

I found the info on the CONCAT issue by burrowing into the forum on Friends of Ed ( i was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I could be doing wrong).

Could you post this rewrite problem and the potential fix on the Friends of Ed download section for the book? I’ve worked around the problem just by modifying the source code.

I’ve also downloaded the updated example files but there doesn’t appear any documentation with them describing what difference there is between the “old” files and why. If some could be provided, I’d really appreciate it!