Searchable database in Dreamweaver CS6

Question

I can't find any tutorials. i just learned how to kind of use dreamweaver, TWO days ago. My teachers want me to make a website for another school, here is the story
Im in EAST (Environmental and Spatial Technologies). Now, our goals are to do projects with a need or change in mind.
My project is for a small school about an hour away. They wanted their Alumni photos to be digitized and put into a searchabel database by grad.date, Name, and Val. Sal. type things.
Well I kinda have the site made for them already, I just have absolutely no idea how to make a  searchable database, i have no clue how to read code, we have no books about this stuff.
We are supposed to learn by using tutuorials, but i couldn't find any about this specifically. And on a side note, I have the table done in Access already, on a PC. BUT I'm using dreamweaver on a Mac. -.-
Any help is great. I HAVE to use dream weaver so please don't tell me to switch programs, this is the only one on this computer.
file:///Users/user/Desktop/WynonaPublicSchool/index.html
That is my site so far. It's only the beginning!!

Answer 1

This is NOT something you really want to attempt if you do not know anything about database set up in conjunction with Dreamweaver.
The basic principle is you set up a 'search form' on your website for instance 'search by name'
<form name="search" method="post" action="searchDetails.php">
<p>
<label>Search by Name<br>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="" />
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label>Search
<input type="submit" name="search" id="search" value="Search">
</label>
</p>
</form>
This from is linked to a Dreamweaver page which gets the information from a database based on the value input into its 'name' field.
That's the easy bit!
I don't know anything about Access database and what server language you require to be using to connect to it but whichever server language and database combination you choose to use the principle is the same.
First I would establish what server language you are going to use and what database.
Then you need to set up a local testing environment on your computer by downloading XAMPP or WAMP or MAMP which ever is suitable for the server/database language youre going to use.
Once you have installed that you can create a database and import or insert the information into it. You can then establish a 'connection' to it in Dreamweaver by going to Window>Server Behaviours>Connect.
Ok now youre lost...so I wont go on........see what I mean this isnt going to be as simple as ABC If you've never done it before.
I don't know if this link will make it any clearer or whether it will confuse you even more:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-78b8a.h tml