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It's working out very well.
I started with GoLive back when it was GoLive Cyberstudio so that's why I'm using it now, that and the integration with the other Adobe apps.

Dynamic Content is very easy to set up and work with, I haven't gotten into writing original code yet, but I can at least look at the code now and see what it's doing.
GoLive doesn't write code on a per page basis, it makes a library file and includes that file for use when called, so sometimes hunting down an issue is kinda hard since you have to dive into 200 lines of code. But overall it's good cause you don't have to rewrite code.
The manual is very robust and it comes with a lot of examples to get you on your way.
I'd highly recommend it.

It was very easy to set up, I was able to get PHP and mySQL running locally on 10.2.3 in half an hour, and then with a small database built, had GoLive connecting to the database and regurtitating data within 2 hours (and that included making thumbnail and full size images from existing scans). Selecting data sources is easy once you have the main mySQL location settings correct - you place a "dynamic content header item" and it pulls up tables for you to select as data sources, and then you can reference that header item to pull data into your document. It can handle multiple data sources and custom queries to those DBs as well. It can also handle multiple mySQL databases.

GoLive comes with ways to automatically set up dynamic navigation settings, like the next, previous, and page # buttons on these forums. It can do a lot, and unfortunately I'm not as far along as I'd like to be learning, but it's happening logically and it all makes sense. I'm trying to learn PHP at the same time, using GoLive's code and workings as an example, and I think I spend more time learning how GoLive does it than learning actual PHP.

I haven't done anything real with it yet. Retrieving data is easy. So maybe I haven't done enough with it to tell honestly, but I'm comfortable with what it's doing.

Hope that helps (despite being a rather disjointed review...)

No, I got PHP and mySQL up and running manually. It held more satisfaction for me that way. Call me a masochist.

I will probably install the e-commerce server that they shipped when I get to learning that, but for now I think I actually have a newer version of PHP than what ships with GoLive, although I can't confirm that.

It really wasn't hard, the process was in a Macworld I think, or maybe a MacAddict (the same issue had a simple article on using GoLive with PHP / mySQL as well).
I do it on my main machine (a dual Ghz G4 leafblower) and it runs fine, it's so quick during testing I'm often pissy when I see how it runs on the web But then again, I'm running from a free service so I can't really complain.