Macromedia® Dreamweaver® 8 with ASP, Coldfusion® and PHP: Training from the Source

Chapter 14. Building Update Pages

In this lesson, you will build an interface that lets employees change a registered user from one user group to another (from visitor to admin, or vice versa). This implies a certain workflow: To add an employee to the admin group, the employee must first register at the site, and then another employee must go in and change her or his user group. Likewise, if an employee leaves Newland Tours, another employee can easily change the former employee’s user profile back to visitor. The interface will use two pages—one where the employee selects the user whose profile will be changed, and one to actually update the profile.

You’ll enable users to update database data using a Web form, SQL’s UPDATE statement, and Dreamweaver’s ...