Quick Start Guide

Authoring dynamic pages 225

The embedded instructions on this page perform the following actions:

1. Create a variable called department and assign the string "Sales" to it.

2. Insert the variable’s value, "Sales", in the HTML code.

The application server returns the following page to the web server:

<html>

<head>

<title>Trio Motors Information Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>About Trio Motors</h1>

<p>Trio Motors is a leading automobile manufacturer.</p>

<p>Be sure to visit our Sales page.</p>

</body>

</html>

The web server sends the page to the requesting browser, which displays it

as follows:

About Trio Motors

Trio Motors is a leading automobile manufacturer.

Be sure to visit our Sales page.

You choose a scripting or tag-based language to use depending on the

server technology available on your server. Here are the most popular

languages for the five server technologies supported by Dreamweaver:

For more information, see “Choosing a server technology” on page 226.

Dreamweaver can create the server-side scripts or tags necessary to make

your pages work, or you can write them by hand in the Dreamweaver

coding environment.

Server technology Language

ColdFusion ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)

ASP.NET Visual Basic

Active Server Pages (ASP) VBScript

JavaScript

Java Server Pages (JSP) Java

PHP PHP