Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Dynamic Applications: Advanced Training from the Source

Jeffrey Bardzell, Macromedia Press

ISBN:0321166809, Edition: , 2003-03-10

Price: $44.99

• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• introduction
  • Using This Book
  • If You Get Stuck
  • Macromedia Training from the Source
  • What You Will Learn
  • Minimum System Requirements
• Lesson 1. The Present and the Future
  • Defining a Static Site
  • Assessing the Site: The Code
  • Assessing the Site: Business Processes
  • A Glimpse of the Future
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 2. Upgrading to XHTML
  • Upgrading to the XHTML Document Type
  • Replacing Strings in Source Code
  • Replacing Tags
  • Stripping Unwanted Tags
  • Closing Empty Tags That Have Attributes
  • Finding Images Without the 'ALT' Attribute
  • Validating Your XHTML
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 3. Creating the Presentation Layer
  • Redefining HTML Elements with CSS
  • Creating and Applying Custom CSS Styles
  • Creating a Reusable Template
  • Enhancing Accessibility with Invisible Navigation
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 4. Dynamic Web Sites
  • Dynamic Web Site Basics
  • Choosing a Server Model
  • Redefining the Newland Tours Site for Dynamic Development
  • Building a Simple, Dynamic Application
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 5. Passing Data Between Pages
  • Understanding the HTTP Protocol
  • Retrieving Data with Querystrings
  • Sending Data with Hyperlinks
  • Setting and Retrieving Cookies
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 6. 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
  • 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
• Lesson 7. Building a Tour Price Calculator
  • Creating the Pages
  • Building the Form
  • Collecting, Processing, and Displaying the Data
  • Adding Server-Side Form Validation
  • Creating the Conditional Region
  • Creating and Applying a Custom CSS Class
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 8. Databases on the Web
  • A Crash Course on Databases
  • Touring the Newland Database
  • Connecting to a Database
  • Creating Recordsets and Displaying Database Information
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 9. Completing the Price Calculator
  • Dynamically Populated Drop-Down Menus
  • Creating Filtered Recordsets
  • Revising the Calculation Script with Live Data
  • Documenting Your Code with Comments
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 10. Filtering and Displaying Data
  • Preparing the Input Page
  • Generating URLs Dynamically
  • Preparing the Output Page
  • Populating Page Layouts Dynamically
  • Adding Dynamic Images and Formatting the Population Number
  • Looking Up Foreign Table Data with SQL
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 11. Building the Tour Descriptions
  • Planning the Application
  • Creating Recordsets with Joins
  • Building the Descriptions
  • Inserting the Images and 'alt' Attributes
  • Implementing Recordset Paging
  • Passing Data to Other Applications
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 12. 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
  • Switching SQL Statements According to Environmental Variables
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 13. Authenticating Users
  • User Authentication as a Web Application
  • Building the Registration Pages
  • Building the Log-In Page
  • Creating Application.cfm (ColdFusion Only)
  • Restricting Access to Pages
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 14. Managing Content with Forms
  • Creating the Admin Section
  • Two Approaches to Formatting Content Stored in a Database
  • Creating the Form Interface
  • Using Session Variables and Hidden Fields to Track Users
  • Inserting the Record
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 15. Building Update Pages
  • Preparing the Pages
  • Planning for the Master-Detail Pages
  • Making the Detail Page Updateable
  • What You Have Learned
• Lesson 16. 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
  • Where To Go From Here
  • What You Have Learned