Writing form data to a database - Dreamweaver CS5

Hi guys,
I am fairly new to the whole PHP, MySQL thing. I was wondering if anyone can assist me. I am trying to find a nice book/tutorial or if any of you can assist I would be greatful. I have created a form page, for explanation purposes lets make it easier and use only 2 fiels. Say the fields are called name and email. How do I write this data to my database, lets say the database has 3 fields:
Field 1: name=id, int, primary key, unique, auto-increment
Field 2: name=name, string[30]
Field 3: name=email, string[50]
I want the data entered into the online form to be INSERTed into the DB when the submit button is clicked.
The Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book in topic heading of chapter 15 said that this would be covered but they did not cover it. There must be an easier way to do this in Dreamweaver than writing the hard code in PHP. I know that the above mentioned book shows you easy ways to put data from the DB onto the content page. Does anyone know of a reference that can assist in teaching this vital skill?
Thanks,
Owen

These questions are best asked on the DW Application Development forum - http://forums.adobe.com/community/dreamweaver/dreamweaver_development
However, you can use the SERVER BEHAVIOR called INSERT RECORD to insert any data into a database. Take a look at that if you want to try to figure this out on your own.

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Hi Paul,
Thank you very much for your quick response. I can not retrieve your
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What does it mean that DSN has to be set up on each machine which will run
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submit pdf form data to sql database
If you want the form to contact the DB directly you will have to set up a
DSN on each of the machines that will run the form. Note that this wil
only work on Windows machines. Also the form must be launched for the
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post your email and I will email them to you directly.
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i did my best and result with that code is :
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' lid=888, sid=860935422, term=902' at line 1
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with prior thanks

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As for the database, (manufacturer specific) this must also be available off-line and updateable by the sales person and customer, as they are not always on-line and no hard-copys of material will be produced, (except when printed by the mechanic).
My solution for me regarding the cache manifest would possibly be a dialogue in dreamweaver that would show all resources associated with the auto manufacturers model type used in the html site. I have used namespaces, (or some form of identifier) for general and model specific javascript, and a model identifying code for images and videos. The dialogue would then allow me to filter the resources required using the namespaces and identifier and include them in the list as required, possibly in much the same way that items are moved from a general list to a more specific list when creating the 'favourites' toolbar in dreamweaver.
The database is on first appearance much simpler, as I would simply download the database using the motor_id as a filter, (yes Scott, you can see where I am going with this ) for those who cannot this would be wrong. You have correctly seen the problem with doing this, but I will explain for those who have not. The sales person and the customer would not see any of the images or videos that have references stored in the database, as these are just references and not the actual images/videos, yes one could use 'BLOB' for storing the items but this is not in my experience a reliable method. What is required is some form of method that would also download these items and place them into the required file position for off-line viewing, (which is what the cache manifest would do).
So I would also require the possibility to add dynamically to the cache manifest from an sql database at the same time as the 'save for off-line' option is generated, (I have experimented with doing this in a similar manner that xml is created from an sql database).
That's it for the html 5.
Accessibility:
For checking I use the firefox accessibility extension and total validator extension first, then the WAVE evaluation tool.
But for Dreamweaver I would like to see the inclusion of the ARIA options as standard, especially when developing 'rich-internet-applications' particularly the aria-live and role options. I often find it interesting in discussions about html 5 where it is seen by many as a 'new' mark-up' language for the web, but rarely seen in the context of helping in accessibility when used correctly. Even the html 5 spec contains a section on using the new mark-up as part of accessibility and how the ARIA roles should be applied, (see - http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/content-models.html#annotation s-for-assistive-technology-products-%28aria%29).
The inclusion of an extra live-view option in dreamweaver that render the page in 'screen reader' mode would also be a possible accessibility checking help. This could be done by simply turning off the background-images 'on-mass' and rendering any items as they would be seen by a screen reader. As most screen readers do now parse JavaScript and css, it would illustrate the problems of using such techniques as light-boxes without using the aria-live role to tell users that the light-box in now the focus of the page.
For anyone who has stayed with this post, my sincere thanks, and any comments on the content would be welcome.
Paula Z

Human Task form data needs to be refreshed in case of abrupt shutdown.

Hi Everyone,
I've got an interesting challenge in my BPM process and was hoping for some guidance.
I'm using the 11g SOA suite. A BPM process within my application is designed such
1. A start node passes a String to a service task
2.The service task makes a call to a webservice operation and passes a payload to a human task
3. The human task has an ADF form built on it and a user can add data to this form in addition to the payload it recd in step 2. When the human task is updated, we have partial submits that invoke webservices to update this data in the database.
Now here's the challenge : If the form is abruptly closed, how do I refresh the data in my form so that it contains the changes made by the user. Do BPM processes auntomatically buffer such data? Or is there way in which I can loop back to the previous step of calling the webservice? All that my form has now is the payload from step 2, I'm resisiting writing a webservice call to refresh data in my form as I can't define what would trigger this webservice call.
Also, another thought I had was that this is a BPM process made of synchronous calls throughout. How can I rectify this so that data is always up to date in the form? Adapters come to mind, but not too sure how. Any guidance is much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Preethi.

Hi,
First thoughts:
I know you say that the data is not in a database, but I think that's the best place for a list like you're describing. Is there a reason why you don't want it in a database?
If it can't be in a database, you could put it in a file and read the file to build your list. That should be pretty easy to do. For changes to the list you maintain the file instead of the hardcoding in the application.

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