Display the Latest Travel Destination
The homepage of the site will display the latest travel destination entered in the database. To a …
Editing Travel Destinations
In this section of the article, I will guide you through building a page that updates the record for the tr …
Replacing a Standard Textarea with a Rich Text Editor
Now it’s time to make the staff that will work to update the site happy. In …
Edit Your First Travel Destination
Now you will learn how to use the editor you’ve just applied to edit a travel destination. Dur …
Forums (message boards) are a great way to share ideas, debate on current issues, or offer technical assistance to your clients. A foru …
Planning the Forum
In this tutorial, you will use Dreamweaver 8 and ImpAKT to build a forum application which will allow users to:
Vie …
Setting Up the Development Framework
First you have to set up your application server environment and install Dreamweaver 8 and ImpAKT. …
What Is ImpAKT?
ImpAKT is a Dreamweaver extension that offers a collection of wizards and server behaviors that will help you set up a …
Defining Your Site
Before you build the forum, you need to set up your site in Dreamweaver. For a quick site setup, take a look at this …
How to define a site in Dreamweaver
In order for Macromedia Dreamweaver to keep track of links between web pages and dependent files, …
Setting Up Your Database
The forum is completely dynamic. It stores and extracts all information from a database. A typical forum is ba …
Displaying the Forum Topics
The forum home page displays all topic titles and descriptions. Beside these values, which are extracted fr …
Styling Your Forum with CSS
In this section you will use the unified CSS panel in Dreamweaver 8 to style the links in your forum.
Here …
Displaying Messages
The topic messages will be displayed in the view_message.php page. The page layout is already created using
tags …
Displaying Profile Photos
Here is how you want to display the user information: user name followed by a thumbnail of the user’s p …
Controlling Output with Conditional Regions
What happens if you click a topic that contains no messages? Take a look at Figure 41—it& …
In Part 1 of this tutorial, we taught you how to pull information from a database in order to set up a forum front end and how to style …
Setting Up User Authentication
In the following sections of this tutorial, you will use ImpAKT to build a user authentication system fo …
Configuring E-mail Settings
Forum users will receive several automatic e-mail messages:
Account activation e-mail
Welcome message af …
Building the User Registration Page
To post messages, a user must have an active account. In this section, you will build the page that …