TUTORIALS for DREAMWEAVER DYNAMIC DATABASE-BASED PAGES: Learn how to create Dynamic Database Driven Pages, including working without a connection, caching, proxying, URL parameters, MySQL and more. (MX, 8, & Below)

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Understanding how you can work without a database connection
As you define sources of dynamic content in the Bindings panel (recordsets, server objects, JavaBeans, and so on), Dreamweaver MX stores their definitions in a Design Note for later use. This is called "caching" your content sources.

Caching sources of dynamic content
By default, Dreamweaver MX caches a source of dynamic content such as a recordset when you create or modify it.

Setting up an ASP.NET environment
To develop ASP.NET pages that can access web services, you must install the ASP.NET SDK, on the same computer on which you are running Dreamweaver MX…

Dreamweaver Database-Based Pages - Finding web services
You can find specific web services by browsing any of several web-based registries of web services. Some of the more popular registries are X Methods, IBM Business Registry, and Microsoft UDDI.

Dreamweaver Database-Based Pages - Generating a proxy and importing a service
This tutorial assumes that you have installed the ASP.NET SDK and that you have defined an ASP.NET site in Dreamweaver MX. To learn more about setting up an ASP.NET environment, and creating an ASP.

Dreamweaver Database-Based Tips - Viewing the completed pages
The web application provides the user with a list of records. If the user wants, he or she can delete any record in the list by clicking the record's Delete link.

Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Based Pages Tips - Creating a page listing the records
This section describes how to create a page that lists database records. You can use a dynamic table to list the records on a ColdFusion page.

Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Based Pages Tips - Creating delete links
After creating the dynamic table, you must create links that the user can click to delete the associated record from the database. This section describes how to create the links. The next section describes how to modify the link so that it also passes the …

Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Driven Pages Tips - Creating a URL parameter for the links
The links produced in the dynamic table not only have to open the confirmation page, they must pass the ID of the record the user wants to delete. The confirmation page will use this ID to find the record in the database and display it.

Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Driven Pages Tips - Displaying the record on the confirmation page
After completing the page listing the records, switch to the confirmation page. The confirmation page shows the record and asks the user if they're sure they want to delete it. When the user confirms the operation by clicking the form button…
Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Driven Pages Tips - Adding logic to delete the record
The next step is to add logic to the confirmation page that deletes the record from the database when the user clicks the Confirm button. You can add this logic quickly and easily in Dreamweaver MX with the Delete Record server behavior …

Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Driven Pages Tips - Deleting records without using a confirmation page
In some situations, you might want the web application to delete a record as soon as the user clicks a Delete link in a list of records. An intervening page does not appear asking the user to confirm the deletion.

Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Based Pages Tips - Dreamweaver 3: Page Properties
Start Dreamweaver by selecting from the Start Menu on a PC or double clicking the program icon on a Macintosh.

Dreamweaver Dynamic Database-Based Pages Tips - Creating Login Page
This tutorial will teach you how to make a login page in Dreamweaver MX. At the end of the tutorial you will have a page where users can enter their username and password and if the username and password which they entered match the records …

Dreamweaver Dynamic Pages Tips - Connecting to MySql Database
Before you attempt this tutorial you should have some DB server running on your computer such as MySql. If not download dev5beta3.exe and install PHP, Apache and MySql together with phpMyAdmin with one click, and you will be ready for all the dynamic …