Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Level 2: Content Management Systems and PHP

Setting up the Website

• Defining a Static Site
• Creating and Formatting the Contact Us Page
• Assessing the Site: The Code, Business Processes
  

Preparing the Static HTML and CSS

• Automating Changes with Find and Replace
• Redefining HTML Elements with CSS
• Creating and Applying Custom CSS Styles, Creating a Reusable Template
• Enhancing Accessibility with Invisible Navigation
  

Dynamic Web Sites

• Dynamic Web Site Basics and Choosing a Server Model
• Redefining the Newland Tours Site for Dynamic Development
• Developing with a Local Server
• Setting Up a Local Environment for Apache/PHP
• Developing with a Remote Server
• Defining a Dynamic Site in Dreamweaver, Building a Simple, Dynamic Application
  

Passing Data Between Pages

• Understanding the HTTP Protocol
• Retrieving Data from the URL
• Sending Data with Hyperlinks, Setting and Retrieving Cookies

Sending Email from a Web Form

• Introducing SMTP Email Service
• Configuring Your System to Send SMTP Email Messages
• Configuring PHP 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
  

Price Calculators

• Creating the Pages and Building the Form
• Collecting, Processing, and Displaying the Data
• Adding Server-Side Form Validation and Creating the Conditional Region
• Creating and Applying a Custom CSS Class
• Dynamically Populated Drop-Down Menus
• Creating Filtered Recordsets
• Revising the Calculation Script With Live Data
• Documenting Your Code With Comments

Databases on the Web

• A Crash Course in Databases
• Introducing Database Objects and Understanding Relationships
• Databases on the Web
• Database Security and the Web
• Installing the Newland Tours Database in MySQL
• Touring the Newland Database
• Connecting to a Database and Retrieving Recordsets and Displaying Database Information
  

Filtering and Displaying Data Using Ajax

• Passing and Using Data with Ajax
• Expanding Dreamweaver with Extensions
• Turning a Recordset into XML
• Connect Country Profiles page to XML data
• Building a Spry Table and Creating Spry Regions
• Displaying with a Spry Accordion
• Adding Images and the Country Name
• Looking Up Foreign Table Data with SQL
• Refining Page Display Using CSS Styling and Positioning
  

Building the Tour Descriptions

• Planning the Application
• Creating Recordsets with Joins and Building the Descriptions
• Inserting the Images and alt Attributes
• Implementing Recordset Paging
• Passing Data to Other Applications
  

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
• Modifying SQL Statements According to Environmental Variables
  

Authenticating Users and Managing Content with Forms

• User Authentication as a Web Application
• Building the Registration Pages
• Building the Log-in Page and Restricting Access to Pages
  
• Creating the Admin Section and Formatting Content Stored in a Database
• Creating the Form Interface
• Using Session Variables and Hidden Fields to Track Users
• Inserting the Record
  

Building Update Pages

• Preparing the Pages and Planning for the Master-Detail Pages
• Making the Detail Page Updateable
  

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 and the Update Record Detail Page
• Adding the Update and Delete Functionality
• Update the Links on the Admin Page
• Where to Go from Here
  

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