Download or read book Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 with ASP, Coldfusion and PHP written by Jeffrey Bardzell and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn by doing! Follow along, step-by-step, as you upgrade a static HTML site that uses obsolete code to an XML standard-compliant, CSS-formatted dynamic site using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Macromedia ColdFusion, or the open source PHP. Create several integrated applications for a fictional travel tour operator, including a searchable listing for tour descriptions, country profiles, and a tour price calendar. In this official Macromedia guide, you'll learn how to: Use a relational database--Microsoft Access or MySQL--as the driving force behind a site Use Dreamweaver's built-in server behaviors and application objects to assist in the rapid development of dynamic Web applications Read and hand-code ASP VBScript, ColdFusion Markup Language, and PHP scripts well enough to understand how dynamic Web pages work, troubleshoot errors, and customize scripts Collect and manipulate user-entered data, performing calculations on the fly Use SQL to pass information between your pages and the database Validate forms using client-side and server-side scripts