Create a record insert form

Create a record insert form

The next page you’ll create for the Cafe Townsend website allows customers to add comments to the database.

Dreamweaver includes several application objects that help you create web application pages quickly and easily. You’ll use an application object to create the insert page. The Insert Record application object creates an HTML form, data fields that correspond to fields in the database, and the necessary server scripts to create a dynamic page.

This section contains the following topics:

Add a Record Insertion Form application object
Create the insert form

Getting Started with Dreamweaver

Learning Dreamweaver

Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site and Project Files

Tutorial: Creating a Table-based Page Layout

Tutorial: Adding Content to Pages

Tutorial: Formatting Your Page with CSS

Tutorial: Publishing Your Site

Tutorial: Working with Code

Tutorial: Creating a CSS-based Page Layout

Tutorial: Displaying XML Data

Tutorial: Developing a Web Application

Before you begin

Review your task

Open a document to work in

Define a recordset

Display the database records

Add dynamic fields to the table

Set a repeated region

Create a record insert form

Add a Record Insertion Form application object

Create the insert form

Copy files to the server

Further reading

Understanding Web Applications

Installing a Web Server

Setup for Sample ColdFusion Site

Setup for Sample ASP.NET Site

Setup for Sample ASP Site

Setup for Sample JSP Site

Dreamweaver Basics

Working with Dreamweaver Sites

Laying Out Pages

Adding Content to Pages

Working with Page Code

Preparing to Build Dynamic Sites

Making Pages Dynamic

Developing Applications Rapidly