User Guide

Database connection functions 85
• The urlParams argument, which is optional, is a string that contains a list of name=value
expressions, which are separated by ampersand (&) characters. You must not enclose values
with quotes. Some characters, such as the space in the value
Hello World, need to be encoded.
The following example shows a valid sample argument that you can pass to
MMDB.getRemoteDsnList():
a=1&b=Hello%20World
Returns
Returns an array that contains the ODBC DSNs that are defined on the server for the current
site.
MMDB.getRuntimeConnectionType()
Availability
Dreamweaver UltraDev 1.
Description
This function returns the runtime connection type of the specified connection name.
Arguments
connName
• The connName argument is a connection name that is specified in the Connection Manager. It
identifies the connection string that Dreamweaver should use to make a database connection
to a live data source.
Returns
A string that corresponds to the connection type. This function can return one of the following
values:
"ADO", "ADODSN", "JDBC", or "CFDSN".
Example
The following code returns the string "ADO" for an ADO connection:
var connectionType = MMDB.getRuntimeConnectionType ("EmpDB")
MMDB.getUserName()
Availability
Dreamweaver UltraDev 1.
Description
This function returns a user name for the specified connection.
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