CHAPTER 11

Tutorial: Developing a 

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Web Application 

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 to 

quickly begin developing dynamic database driven web applications, 

allowing you to present information retrieved from a database on your 

web pages.

You'll display data on web pages for the Cafe Townsend site, using a 

sample database provided with Dreamweaver. You'll also use Dreamweaver 

to create a record insertion form to let visitors leave comments. 

In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

Before you begin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Review your task  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Open a document to work in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  200

Define a recordset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Display the database records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  204

Add dynamic fields to the table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  206

Set a repeated region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

View your page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  208

Create a record insert form  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  208

Copy files to the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Further reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

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