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December 14, 2009
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Training: ASP/Forms/Database

  • December 14, 2009
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Where do I begin? I am a Dreamweaver user (approx 5 years). Now need to learn how to connect my site using DW to a SQL Database. Need an overall understanding/overview of asp/forms/database. The site I am working on has forms created in DW using ASP. How to get the data captured in the form to transfer to the database. Thanks much.

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September 26, 2010

Training: ASP/Forms/Database

Where  do I begin? I am a Dreamweaver user (approx 5 years). Now need to learn  how to connect my site using DW to a SQL Database. Need an overall  understanding/overview of asp/forms/database. The site I am working on  has forms created in DW using ASP. How to get the data captured in the  form to transfer to the database. Thanks much.

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September 26, 2010

Was this a bump?

I also had to re-learn...I started using DW back when it was a Macromedia product (around 1998 and later) and the web standard was still static HTML and XHTML. Needless to say, those were the extent of my language repertoire (looked at ASP at the time but didn't feel it was necessary). I left the web design scene somewhere around the time MX2004 came out and had moved on to other things but stayed using the entire Macromedia design series to this date (I currently use CS5).

I had recently been asked to help out with a website and it was suggested that it be a dynamic site with php and a mysql database. I wanted to hold on to my geek badge so I started learning php and mysql (still learning). I found that the best way to learn these languages is W3Schools. That is an awesome reference and education site and they've been around for 10+ years. I used W3Schools and jumped from php/sql forum to php/sql forum for help with specific problems I ran into with coding. Forums are indispensable for getting the help you need but you should be looking at language-speciic forums (php,ASP,sql,CF...). Fortunately php and mysql are relatively easy languages to learn and if you have any web design background, you should be able to self-learn with little difficulty. 

Good luck.