Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes (Paperback)

Summary

Why reinvent the wheel every time you design a new Web site? With this book, you don't have to. By providing real-world recipes for building dynamic Web applications using Dreamweaver with ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP, this book shows you how to save time and money while focusing on the things that make your site unique. In these pages, a trio of Dreamweaver experts provides reusable recipes for User Login, Employee Lookup, Conference Room Scheduler, Survey Builder, In/Out Board, Time Card, Journal, and E-Mail Merge. Included are thorough explanations of all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, secure FTP, tighter integration with other Macromedia tools, enhanced coding tools, and more. Each recipe includes discussions of application structure, database components, data binding concerns, and application-specific issues. The end result is a collection of recipes for Dreamweaver success that you'll find yourself using again and again.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. STARTERS: FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF WEB APPLICATIONS.

1. Basic Principles of Data Source Design.

How Web Applications Work. Application Server Technologies Overview. Types of Data Sources. Structuring Your Data. Connecting to Data Sources. Setting Up ColdFusion Connections. Connecting to a MySQL Data Source for PHP. Preparing SQL Statements.

2. Building Applications in Dreamweaver Workspace.

Working in the Workspace.

II. MAIN COURSE: INTRANET WEB APPLICATIONS.

Recipe 1. User Login.

Ingredients. Prep Work. End User Recipe: User Login. End User Recipe: New User Registration. End User Recipe: Personalizing and Protecting Pages. End User Recipe: Conditional Display. End User Recipe: Editing the User Profile. End User Recipe: Emailing Passwords. Administrator Recipe: Managing Users. Administrator Recipe: Modifying User Profiles. Administrator Recipe: Viewing User Statistics.

Recipe 2. Employee Lookup.

Ingredients. Prep Work. End User Recipe: Employee Search. End User Recipe: Employee Advanced Search. End User Recipe: Employee Results. End User Recipe: Employee Details. End User Recipe: Update Employee. Administrator Recipe: New Job. Administrator Recipe: New Employee.

3. Conference Room Scheduler.

Ingredients. Prep Work. End User Recipe: Meeting Request. For PHP. End User Recipe: Meeting Conflict. End User Recipe: Meeting Details. End User Recipe: Edit Meeting Request. End User Recipe: Search for Existing Meeting. End User Recipe: Meeting Results. Administrator Recipe: Add Conference Room. Administrator Recipe: Edit Conference Room.

Recipe 4. In/Out Dashboard.

Ingredients. Prep Work. End User Recipe: Dashboard. End User Recipe: Update Status. Administrator Recipe: Manage Announcements. Administrator Recipe: Add Announcements.

III. MAIN COURSE: WORKGROUP WEB APPLICATIONS.

Recipe 5. Survey Builder.

Ingredients. Prep Work. Administrator Recipe: Create Survey. Administrator Recipe: Add Survey Questions. Administrator Recipe: Survey Manager. Administrator Recipe: Edit Survey. Administrator Recipe: Edit Survey Questions. Administrator Recipe: Launch Survey. Administrator Recipe: Survey Statistics. End User Recipe: Taking the Survey. End User Recipe: Survey Completed. End User Recipe: Survey Offline.

Recipe 6. Time Cards.

Ingredients. Prep Work. Recipe Overview: Data Source Tables and Queries. Administrator Recipe: Add Job Code. Administrator Recipe: Add Project. Recipe: Administrator/End-User Recipe: Project Summary. End-User Recipe: Add Time Card. Administrator Recipe: Hours Breakdown. Administrator Recipe: Task Detail. Administrator Recipe: Task Update. Administrator Recipe: View Time Cards.

Recipe 7. Journal.

Ingredients. Prep Work. Administrator Recipe: Manage Journal. Administrator Recipe: New Journal. Administrator Recipe: Edit Journal. User Recipe: View Journal. User Recipe: Journal Publisher. User Recipe: Journal Editor. User Recipe: Journal Archive.

Recipe 8. Mail Merge.

Ingredients. Prep Work. End User Recipe: Search Users. End User Recipe: Mailing List Results Page. End User Recipe: Send Mail. Administrator Recipe: Mailbox. Administrator Recipe: Mail Log.

Index.