March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
15h 52m
English
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Case Study: The Front-Page Panel
In this
section, we show how to engineer a front-page panel—we call
this the panel. The completed panel was shown in
Figure 4-1. We use the techniques discussed so far
in this chapter to present more attractive HTML
<table> formatted results, to process
multiple query results, and to customize the output based on the data
retrieved. No significant new concepts are introduced in the case
study.
The panel case study is a progressive development of a script to display the details of new wines. We show the following details in the panel:
Information about the three wines most recently added to the database, including the vintage year, the winery, the wine name, and the varieties
The review written by a wine writer
How much a bottle costs, how much a case of a dozen bottles costs, and any per-bottle discount users receive if they purchase a case
To achieve the outcome of a functional and attractive panel, you need
to query the wine, winery,
inventory, grape_variety,
and wine_variety tables. You also need to use
the structure of the HTML <table>
environment to achieve distinct presentation of the three
components—the details, the review, and the price—of each
newly added wine. Last, you need some mathematics to calculate any
savings for buying a case and present these savings to the user.
The panel component developed in this chapter is the basis of the front page of our online winestore. However, shopping cart features that are not discussed in detail ...
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