Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual

Chapter 24. Advanced Dynamic Site Features

Dreamweaver’s basic database capabilities are impressive. But there may come a time when you need to dig deeper into the program to build successful Web applications. Dreamweaver’s advanced features let you, the mere mortal, do things that the pros do every day, like password protecting pages, displaying content based on database results, and accessing information from forms, cookies, and URLs.

Password Protecting Web Pages

Although Dreamweaver MX lets you create Web pages that can add, edit, and delete records from a database, your e-business wouldn’t last very long if just anyone could remove orders from your online ordering system or view credit card information stored in your customers’ records. And certainly your company’s executives wouldn’t be happy if someone accessed the staff directory database, and changed their titles to things like, for example, Chief Bozo.

For these and other reasons, Dreamweaver provides a simple set of tools for locking your pages away from prying eyes.

For example, the User Authentication server behaviors can password protect any page on your site. With this feature, you can limit areas of your site to registered users only, allow customers to access and update their contact information, create maintenance pages accessible only to administrators, or personalize Web pages with customized messages (“Welcome back, Dave”).

Note

ASP.NET Note

Dreamweaver MX does not provide any User Authentication server behaviors ...