foundation asp for dreamweaver 8

[...]... Creating delete_action .asp Conclusion Index 287 288 288 288 288 289 289 290 292 294 294 295 295 295 297 2 98 301 301 302 304 304 307 307 3 08 309 312 316 317 320 322 327 xiii 5 688 FM.qxd 12/29/05 10:42 AM Page xiv ABOUT THE AUTHORS Omar Elbaga has been passionately involved in web development for over six years,... contact form on his website, http://robgt.com We have written this book for you, and we are here for you Please give us time to respond due to the large amount of responses we have to deal with We look forward to helping you learn more about building dynamic websites using Dreamweaver 8 with ASP! xvii 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05 10:23 AM Page xviii 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05 10:23 AM Page 1 Chapter 1 DREAMWEAVER. .. 270 271 273 276 277 2 78 279 281 281 281 283 283 285 287 Overview of the image gallery application Storing information in the database Inserting, editing, and displaying albums Uploading and displaying photos Editing captions and deleting photos Creating the database for the image gallery ... user permissions for tables Connecting Dreamweaver to your database Connection strings DSN Displaying blog entries Creating onews_main .asp Designing onews_main .asp Wiring up onews_main .asp Creating onews_details .asp Designing onews_details .asp Wiring up onews_details .asp Creating onews_archives .asp Designing... 106 107 107 1 08 1 08 109 110 111 112 113 113 114 114 115 116 119 122 124 125 127 1 28 129 131 133 Form attributes: Action and Method get method post method Retrieving form values with Request.Form Creating sample login forms Forms with text box elements Forms with list/menu... Figure 1-4) Figure 1-4 View of Dreamweaver s New Document options, in which Dynamic page and ASP VBScript are selected 4 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05 10:23 AM Page 5 DREAMWEAVER AND DYNAMIC SITES Your cursor will now be within the design body of the document From the standard toolbar, select Insert ➤ ASP Objects ➤ Output Dreamweaver will now create the following ASP brackets for you: (We’ll go into... generates all the code for you, it’s technically possible to use the ASP JavaScript built-in server behaviors (or any server model for that matter) for these exercises As you progress through the book, however, you’ll be enhancing Dreamweaver s automatically generated code, as well as the VBScript code itself, so it’s important that you stick with the ASP VBScript server model throughout 8 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05... for each product 9 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05 10:23 AM Page 10 CHAPTER 1 Where is ASP in Dreamweaver? Great question! Now you’ll take a quick look at where the heck your ASP stock code is located within Dreamweaver, and how you access it ASP features supported by Dreamweaver Anything you can do in ASP can be done within Dreamweaver Dreamweaver’s versatile page layout options allow you to view your pages in... development in Design view Figure 1-11 Example of Dreamweaver page development in Code view 10 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05 10:23 AM Page 11 DREAMWEAVER AND DYNAMIC SITES Figure 1-12 Example of Dreamweaver page development in Split view Before you dive into any ASP, which will naturally be a bit foreign to you, you’ll briefly look at two main sections of Dreamweaver: the Insert bar and the Application panel... same database(s) Since the code for the connection doesn’t change, Dreamweaver creates one document with the code for the connection and then just adds ASP includes on the pages you specify for the connection; then those pages will reference the code from the original document 12 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05 10:23 AM Page 13 DREAMWEAVER AND DYNAMIC SITES Code Block This is Dreamweaver s way of adding a new, . deal with. We look forward to helping you learn more about building dynamic websites using Dreamweaver 8 with ASP! xvii INTRODUCTION 5 688 FM.qxd 12/29/05 10:42 AM Page xvii 5 688 CH01.qxd 12/29/05.