Chapter 10. Server Behaviors
One of the trickier parts of Web development is figuring out how to combine the HTML content on a Web page—that is, the front end your users see—with the application code that makes that page dynamic and lets your users interact with your application sever. In most cases, just pasting in a bunch of PHP or other server scripts is not going to make your page magically become database aware.
Fortunately, Dreamweaver’s server behaviors streamline and simplify the process of interweaving server code with HTML for you. As you may remember from Chapter 2, server behaviors are customizable blocks of server code (written in ColdFusion, PHP, JSP, or ASP) which, when used in conjunction with data from a database, add dynamic functionality ...
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