Creating Data Driven Websites with Dreamweaver CS4: Using ColdFusion, PHP or ASP

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1 Creating Data Driven Websites with Dreamweaver CS4: Using ColdFusion, PHP or ASP published by Antall Training 440/ Copyright Antall Training All Rights Reserved. No portion of this training manual may be duplicated or otherwise disseminated without written permission from Antall Training.

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3 Table of Contents Introduction to Dreamweaver...1 Who is Dreamweaver for?...1 What is a webmaster?...1 History of Dreamweaver...2 Goals of this class...3 What's New in Dreamweaver CS4...4 Static pages vs. Dynamic pages...5 Choosing a Server-side language...6 Server-side Languages covered in this course...7 Introduction to ColdFusion...7 Introduction to Active Server Pages...8 Introduction to PHP...8 Who This Course is For...9 Course Project...9 Confronting Differences in Technologies...11 Passing Data from Page to Page...13 Understanding HTTP Requests: Passing data through the URL...13 Accessing Variables in the URL...14 HTML Form Basics...15 Create a Dreamweaver Site...17 Create a New Site Manage Sites...17 Site Creation Basic...17 Site Creation - Advanced...25 Exercise 1: Create a Dreamweaver Site...28 Database Basics...32 Database Alphabet Soup: ODBC, JDBC, OleDB, DSNs and SQL...33 Introduction to SQL...34 Select Statement...34 Update Statement...35 Insert Statement...35 Delete Statement...35 Course Project Database...36 Create a Database Connection...40 Application Panel Group...40 ASP: Create a Database Connection...42 ColdFusion: Connect to Database with a DSN...43 Server Behaviors...46 Simple Recordset...46 Exercise 2: Build Simple Recordset...50 ScottAntall.com Creating Data-Driven Websites with Dreamweaver Page i

4 Display Recordset Results...52 Repeat Region...53 Exercise 3: Display Query Results...54 Paging through Records...56 Record Paging...56 Exercise 4: Paging through Records...60 Show Region if...62 Exercise 5: Show Region if...64 Display Recordcount...66 ColdFusion and PHP: Display Record Count...66 Shortcut and ASP: Display Record Count...67 Exercise 6: Display Recordcount...68 Go to Detail Page (Pass a Parameter to a Second Page)...70 Pass a Variable in a Link...71 ASP: Go to Detail page Server Behavior...73 PHP and ColdFusion: External Extensions available...74 ColdFusion: Add code from scratch...74 Exercise 7: Go to Detail Page...76 Filtering a Recordset to Create a Detail Page (Add a SQL WHERE Clause)...78 Simple Recordset with Filter...78 View Query in Advanced Recordset...79 Formatting the Date...82 Exercise 8: Create a Detail Page...84 Advanced Recordsets and Multi-table Queries...86 Exercise 9: Advanced Recordset and Multi-Table Query...90 Shorcuts! (Optional)...92 Dynamic Table...92 Recordset Navigation Bar...93 Recordset Navigation Status...93 Master Detail Page Set...93 Review and Cumulative Exercise...94 Exercise 10: Cumulative Exercise Create Actors page in style of allmovies and moviedetails...94 Create an Admin Section...98 Create Admin Page...98 Dynamically Created Form Elements Using Dreamweaver to create forms Create dynamic select list of movie titles Advanced SQL Technique: Create an Alias Page ii Creating Data-Driven Websites with Dreamweaver ScottAntall.com

5 Exercise 11: Dynamically Create Select Lists Insert New Record Insert New Actor using Insert Record Behavior Client-side Form Validation using Spry Exercise 12: Insert New Actor Exercise 13: Insert New Movie (optional) Edit (Update) Record A Closer Look Adding the Update Record Behavior Exercise 14: Edit Record Delete Record Delete Record Behavior Delete a Record from the database Delete Record by changing status to inactive Exercise 15: Delete Movie Password Protect Pages (User Authentication) Getting Ready Password Protect the admin section Users Table Restrict Access to Page Behavior Complete the login page Create Logout page Check New Username ColdFusion: Potential Error Exercise 16: Password Protect a Page Site Management Tools Find and Replace Built in FTP client File check-in/check-out Design Notes Link Checker Reports Browser Compatibility Check (Optional) Exercise 17: Site Reporting (Optional) Exercise 18: Project Appendix A: Course Set-up ColdFusion Setup Instructions: Appendix B: Extending Dreamweaver Check the rating Installing Extensions with Adobe Extension Manager Go to Detail Page Extension ScottAntall.com Creating Data-Driven Websites with Dreamweaver Page iii

6 ASP.NET and JSP Extensions Appendix C: Stored Procedures Dreamweaver and MS Access Queries ColdFusion Users: Access a Stored Procedure Appendix D: Resources Appendix E: Sending with ColdFusion Page iv Creating Data-Driven Websites with Dreamweaver ScottAntall.com