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Gregory Huet Honours Project 99034735 Dr. William Buchanan 5.2.7 Dynamic Pages in ASP To create dynamic pages, first of all the configuration of an ODBC 32 is required (see Figure 15 below). To manage it, an interface can be find in the following menu: Start/Settings/Control Panel. As soon as the system recognises the database, it is possible to manage the implementation of dynamic pages under Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4®. This software directly writes ASP code on these pages, therefor it is very easy to display information from the database in a page. Figure 15: Screenshot of the ODBC window (French version of Microsoft Windows 2000®) 32 Open Database Connectivity 42
Gregory Huet Honours Project 99034735 Dr. William Buchanan The creation of the connection to the database is the first step for the implementation of ASP pages. A lot of behaviours exit and allow developers to create on the fly dynamic pages (cf. Figure 16). The prototype includes these pages in the demonstration section. The figure 16 presents different elements in the “users” and the “groups” tables. The information is recorded in two Recordsets called Update and Groups. The children elements are the fields of each table. By dragging and dropping these elements, the page will display dynamic elements. At the bottom of figure 16, there is a Request element which is used to receive data from the previous page. The Session object is very important as well, because it keeps some information about the user during all the navigation. This functionality is very useful because it allows the server to have a continuous reference to the user, for instance when he/she will enter a personal page as the calendar or the profile page. Figure 16: Data Bindings window Figure 17: Creation of a Recordset called Update The creation of dynamic elements is one of the main part of the implementation to create a automated tool. Behaviours registered in Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4® are great 43
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