Testing Your Master and Detail Pages in Java

Generate Quick Response Code in Java Testing Your Master and Detail Pages

After you create a master and detail page set, you need to test those pages Follow these steps to preview the pages in a browser:

1 Open the master page 2 Choose File Preview in Browser Name of Browser 3 When Dreamweaver asks you if it s okay to copy the file to the testing

site, click OK Your browser launches with your master page (see Figure 1-10)

In the employee example, the linked field is the employee s last name When you click a link, the browser page changes to expand the record and display the detail page Be sure that both your master page and detail page transfer to the testing server If not, when you click a link in the master page, you get a Page not found error message

Developing search and results pages for most language types Developing search and results pages for ASPNET

ou can use Dreamweaver to build search pages, which allow users to search your database, and results pages, which display the search results Search pages are frequently used with dynamic database-driven Web pages to provide a shortcut to the information the user is looking for For example, online stores usually give you the ability to search their products A basic search page contains a form with a search field and a submit button Users enter search parameters in the form and click the submit button The results page then receives the search parameters, searches the database for records that meet the search criteria, builds a recordset to hold the records it finds, and then displays the contents of the recordset for the users If you allow just one search parameter, Dreamweaver can create the recordset for you with a filter However, if you have more than one search parameter, you need to work directly with an SQL statement and send a parameter to it This chapter shows you how to build search and results pages for a single search parameter

At a minimum, search pages consist of a form text field and a Submit button The following steps show you how to create a basic search page:

An empty form displays in the Document window The form s boundaries display as thin red lines If the form isn t visible, enable Invisible Elements by choosing View Visual Aids Invisible Elements

The Input Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box displays (see Figure 2-1)

Insert Form Button to add a Submit button to your form You can also just click on Button on the insert menu to automatically add the new button right after the text field

8 Click OK to close the Input Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box 9 Select the Submit button in the document 10 In the Properties inspector, change the Value text to Search

The form should now look like Figure 2-2, which has all the basic elements that are required to request a search

results page (the page that will process the database search request), or click the Folder button to select a file You create this file when defining the results page, as described in the next section For example, we entered resultsphp, as shown in Figure 2-3

You have now completed the search page After the user fills out the form and clicks the Submit button, the information is passed on to the results page as a form parameter Read on to find out how to create the results page

The complexity of building your results page is directly related to the number of search parameters users can specify If you allow only one search parameter, you don t have to modify the SQL query when building the results page This is the type of search that we describe in this chapter The results page receives the search parameters from the form, plugs that data into a recordset filter, and then displays the results from the recordset on the page The search page can optionally link to another page to expand details for a search result For example, searching a catalog of products produces a list of matching products If you then click on one of the products, you see the full detail page for just that product In the following sections, you find out how to build the recordset that holds the results as well as the page that displays those results