Advanced
Dreamweaver 8: Dynamic Application Development provides students the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build dynamic web application with Dreamweaver.

This course is a terrific introduction to pulling data and page content dynamically from a database. You'll learn how to build adaptable, database-structured web-sites, including:

• displaying database content on pages
• populating drop-down menus from databases
• passing data among pages
• building dynamic "drill-down" or search interfaces
• and more

Workshop Outline
Course Outline
Introducing Dreamweaver 8 and The Travel Tours website

• Defining a static site
• Creating the "Contact an Agent" page
• Creating a new page based on an existing page
• Working in design view, code view, and split view
• Inserting and formatting text
• Inserting images from the Insert bar
• Creating tables
• The Property inspector

• Dynamic web site basics
• Choosing a server model
• Redefining the Newland Tours site for dynamic development
• Developing with a local server
• Developing with a remote server
• Building a simple, dynamic application

• Understanding the HTTP protocol
• Retrieving data with query strings/URL variables
• Retrieving data with hyperlinks
• Setting and retrieving cookies

• Introducing SMTP e-mail service
• Configuring your system to send SMTP e-mail
• Writing the code to send a message
• Introducing objects, methods/functions, and properties
• Creating the web form
• E-mailing dynamic form values
• Client-side form validation

• 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

• A crash course on databases
• Touring the Newland database
• Connecting the site to a database
• Creating recordsets and displaying database information

• Dynamically populated drop-down menus
• Creating filtered recordsets
• Revising the calculation script with live data
• Documenting your code with comments

• 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

• Planning the application
• Creating recordsets with joins
• Building the descriptions
• Inserting images and alt attributes
• Implementing recordset paging
• Passing data to other applications

• Preparing the search page and creating the Search All link
• Searching by region: building the interfaces
• Commenting code for testing and debugging
• Suppressing the navigation bar conditionally
• Searching by country: filtering by form variable
• Switching SQL statements according to environmental variables

• User authentication as a web application
• Building registration pages
• Building a log-in page
• Restricting access to pages

• Creating Database administration tools
• Two approaches to formatting content stored in a database
• Creating the Admin interface
• Using session variables and hidden fields to track users
• Inserting the record

• Preparing the pages
• Planning master-detail pages
• Making the detail page updateable