Building a Dynamic Site - help

[Andrew Thomas]

Hi,

Im trying to build a dynamic website using ASP, Access and dreamweaver MX.

It is only a small 4 page site, but I need to log on and make the changes through a web front end add/amend/delete.

Ive looked around for tutorials on this but have not found much of any use, can any point me in the right direction, or know of any good books on this subject

thanks

[Dreamquick]

Thomas,

Which part of that are you looking for help on...

using the technologies you listed
actually building the site
using the web front end (presumably of your host)

- Tony

[Andrew Thomas]

Im starting from scratch,

basically was looking for a few pointers/resources on how to 'build' a dynamic site using ASP and Access database.

[txbakers]

good tutorials at www.w3schools.com on ASP

[Andrew Thomas]

thanks txbakers,

its in my favourites now!

[korkus2000]

Have you looked at macromedias stuff [macromedia.com]? I have also found www.dwzone.net to have some really good tutorials on DMX.

[ukgimp]

Have you looked at the macromedia forums.

Also a good range of tutorials

[udnewbie.com...]
[basic-ultradev.com...]

There are loads more if you do searched for UD tutorials

Cheers

[brotherhood of LAN]

Not that this may help since you are using DW but MS Frontpage can make those sort of interfaces in minutes with one of its "wizards".

Maybe someone can forward you the code knowing your table structure ;)

You can make the adjustments to the VB/ASP/HTML as you wish.

[Andrew Thomas]

Thanks for all the links :)

[ukgimp]

Some more, but I have removed the active link bit:

w.hiran.desilva.com/ultradev/
w.4guysfromrolla.com/
w.aspin.com/
w.charon.co.uk/
w.princeton.edu/~rcurtis/ultradev/ (good)
w.massimocorner.com/
w.dreamweaver-extensions.com/
w.robgt.com/tutorials/macromedia/ultradev/index.asp
w.webuality.com/t-cubed/tutorial_index.asp
w.ultradevextensions.com/
w.webthang.co.uk/tutorial.htm

Hope that helps, there are some really usefull tutorials that you can use to get things moving rather rapid.

Cheers

[bateman_ap]

There is a brill tool called genericdb haven't got the url handy but it is the first result on google if u do a search.

Is amazingly useful for a basic database

[txbakers]

MS Frontpage can make those sort of interfaces in minutes

And it will take you weeks to decipher what FrontPage did, and weeks more to rewrite it in clean, easy to read code.

Don't use Frontpage for anything except a coaster.

Just my unbiased opinion......don't shoot.

[Andrew Thomas]

Thanks for the info, ive just created a demo site which displays dynamic data from Access and is also password protected :)

I just need to create an add/delete page, but im sure i'll be OK with that.

However one small problem, is that my file add.asp is secured using dreameaver User Authentication, if i go straight to this file I need to enter the password via login.asp.

But once ive entered this password, go into my site 'add.asp' and then go off to another page, come back to add.asp i do not need the password.

But if i close explorer i need the password again.

Is this to do with the cache, or cookies? and is their an easy way so that if i exit the page and enter on the same session I must re-enter the password again (for security reasons).

thanks
hope you understand

[ukgimp]

Password protection in UD [groups.google.com]

Also sift throught the google groups. I have seen tuts on this but cannot seem to find one now. What you want is not difficult, i have just not done it for a while and my pc was updated recently so I lost al my server models in UD.

Cheers

<added> It may be as simple as an inlcude at the top of each other page you wish to protect that looks for a session variable. If it aint there you get a redirect</added>

[brotherhood of LAN]

don't shoot.

Wha...not even with a pea shooter? ;)

tx, surpisingly this is one where FP aint so bad for making bad code. If you know VB,ASP and HTML it shouldn't be a problem, and I don't know VB or ASP well anyway!

Just delete everything that's inside a comment tag for the FP webbots and it will still work fine. Either that or edit the VB script it uses to your liking. The ASP it makes works fine and is light, while the HTML, as usual does not validate :)