Book description
Designed for intermediate Web designers and developers with no previous experience with programming or server-side technology. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion and PHP: Training from the Source has been fully-updated, not just for the latest version of Dreamweaver but for today's Web. It's now standards--compliant, with a site created using one of Dreamweaver's brand-new CSS templates, that includes Ajax elements in the dynamic site design. Users ready to take the next step and make their Web sites interactive will find the same easy-to-read, logical, well-constructed projects, but with a site based on the latest Web technology.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Bios
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Introducing Newland Tours
- 2. Preparing the Static HTML and CSS
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3. Dynamic Web Sites
- Dynamic Web Site Basics
- Choosing a Server Model
- Redefining the Newland Tours Site for Dynamic Development
- Developing with a Local Server
- Setting Up a Local Environment for IIS/ASP
- Setting Up a Local Environment for ColdFusion
- Setting Up a Local Environment for Apache/PHP
- Developing with a Remote Server
- Defining a Dynamic Site in Dreamweaver (All Users)
- Building a Simple, Dynamic Application
- What You Have Learned
- 4. Passing Data Between Pages
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5. Sending Email from a Web Form
- Introducing SMTP Email Service
- Configuring Your System to Send SMTP Email Messages
- Configuring IIS to Send Email (ASP Users)
- Configuring ColdFusion to Send Email
- Configuring PHP to Send Email
- Writing the Code to Send a Message
- Understanding Objects, Methods, and Properties
- Creating the Web Form
- Emailing Dynamic Form Values
- Client-Side Form Validation
- What You Have Learned
- 6. Building a Tour Price Calculator
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7. Databases on the Web
- A Crash Course on Databases
- Introducing Database Objects
- Understanding Relationships
- Databases on the Web
- Database Security and the Web
- Installing the Newland Tours Database in MySQL
- Touring the Newland Database
- Connecting to a Database
- Retrieving Recordsets and Displaying Database Information
- What You Have Learned
- 8. Completing the Price Calculator
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9. Filtering and Displaying Data Using Ajax
- Passing and Using Data with Ajax
- Expanding Dreamweaver with Extensions
- Turning a Recordset into XML
- Connect Country Profiles page to XML data
- Building a Spry Table
- Creating Spry Regions
- Displaying with a Spry Accordion
- Adding Images and the Country Name
- Looking Up Foreign Table Data with SQL
- Refining Page Display Using CSS Styling and Positioning
- What You Have Learned
- 10. Building the Tour Descriptions
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11. Building Search Interfaces
- Preparing the Search Page and Creating the Search All Link
- Searching by Region: Building the Interfaces
- Revising the Query and Commenting Code for Testing and Debugging
- Suppressing the Navigation Bar
- Searching by Country: Filtering by Form Variable
- Modifying SQL Statements According to Environmental Variables
- What You Have Learned
- 12. Authenticating Users
- 13. Managing Content with Forms
- 14. Building Update Pages
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15. Hand-Coding a Basic CMS
- Preparing the Content Management System
- Building the Form and Hand-Coding a Recordset
- Adding the Insert Functionality
- Creating the Master Page
- Creating the Update Record Detail Page
- Adding the Update Functionality
- Adding the Delete Functionality
- Update the Links on the Admin Page
- Where to Go from Here
- What You Have Learned
Product information
- Title: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP: Training from the Source
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2007
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780321461063
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