Preparing Your Page to Interact with Active Server Pages (ASP), JSP, PHP, or CFML

Besides CGI scripts, there are other ways to process forms and create dynamic Web applications. Like CGI scripting, these technologies interact with the Web server to process Web page information. Dreamweaver MX enables you to create dynamic Web pages incorporating server-side scripting. When you create a new Web page, you create a dynamic page by selecting the Dynamic Page category, as shown in Figure 20.8.

Figure 20.8. You can create ASP, JSP, PHP, and CFML pages with Dreamweaver MX.

The four major server-side scripting languages that Dreamweaver MX supports are ...

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