Mysteries of F12 and a Command Prompt shortcut

[zonkd]

1. Be grateful to know the trick of being able to use F12 to test with the browser in Dreamweaver when Apache and localhost are present?

2. There is a way to have a shortcut to mysql in the Command Prompt, to save that rigmarole of changing directories all the way through from the root. Be v pleased if an Expert could pass on this tip. Cheers

[thorpe]

never used dreameweaver, so canthelp you with that one, but. to get your terminal to recognise mysql you need to put it in the PATH variable. i think its stored in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file on windows (i use linux), which is probably in your C:\ drive.

the line your looking for looks something like....

PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;

just add the path to mysql to the end of it. eg

PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\mysql\bin\mysql.exe;

[tomhath]

Or (assuming you are on Windows) create a shortcut to mysql.exe. All the path and command line parameters can be soted in the .pif file.