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A tiny .htaccess tutorial

This is mostly a "stick this in your application" tutorial. The file only does two things, and only on Apache servers, and I explained them as simply as I could. But they offer HUGE functionality for web developers, so take the time to read about it.
August 22, 2001 Author: Bob Costa Rating:

Restoring your DW/UD Configuration

If you're like like me and frequestly mess about with DW/UD standard toolsets without really knowing what's going on then here's a few tips to make sure you don't kill DW/UD outright..............
August 20, 2001 Author: jason parker Rating:

Building a functioning mini website with dynamic contactlist

A beginner tutorial describing from beginning to end how to set up a three page website with a dynamic contact list combined with a detail page, the finished project is included for study.
This tutorial covers: Defining the site, building a page and copying it, setting up a quick Database, creating the connection, using the dynamic data and creating a detail page in full detail, no live objects here.

This tutorial is compatible with Dreamweaver MX, in MX the databindings panel is upgraded to what is now the Application panel.

August 6, 2001 Author: Dennis van Galen Rating:

Getting rid of your ADOVBS.INC file!

Just say NO to using ADOVBS.INC in your ASP pages. It's not the right way to do things. It requires an include file in *every* page that uses any ADO constants. Include files impose overhead -- significant in sites that see a great deal of traffic. Furthermore, this file is fairly long, including all kinds of constants of which any one page will probably only use one or two. There is a better way........

August 3, 2001 Author: jason parker Rating:

Setting up local SSI's on Win2k Professional.

Do you keep getting the following error when you try to implement local Server Side Includes (SSI's) on Windows 200 Professsional?

Error Type:
Active Server Pages, ASP 0126 (0x80004005)
The include file 'includes/top.asp' was not found.

Find out what's going wrong and how to fix it :)

August 1, 2001 Author: jason parker Rating:

The Zen of Recursion

Anyone working on a content management system should have a good grasp of "recursion" and how to implement it. This article explains how use MS SQL Server stored procedures recursively to traverse through hierachal data :)

August 1, 2001 Author: jason parker Rating:

Using Meta Generator Extention for DW4

This tutorial explains you how to use the Meta Generator extension. This awesome Extension is the best way to quickly create custom Meta Tags in DW! With this new extension, you have almost 40 custom tags you can create from within this one object!
July 31, 2001 Author: David Anderson Rating:

How to make a simple, but useful, Dreamweaver extension

Intended to take some of the mystery out of how extensions work, this tutorial is a walk-through on how to create a simple object extension. It shows the entire process from creating the necessary HTML and JavaScript right through to packaging the extension so that it can be installed using the Dreamweaver Extension manager.
July 28, 2001 Author: Colm Gallagher Rating:

Simple Text Replace - For Swearing Validation/Custom Tags etc.

In the development of a forum program in ASP, I found it neccesary to implement several features, if the project was the match the forerunners of the day.

I figured that using this bit of code, I could acheive all of them. This code works to replace anything a user types in a specific feild of a new record with custom text or HTML you wish to appear.

Thats all there is to it. PLEASE NOTE: The file in this zip archive contains the results of my swearing validation, and as such, contains a LOT of swears. Be warned before opening :)

Hope this is of some use!

Joe Utichi
www.dreamcastuk.net
www.ps2-4u.com

July 23, 2001 Author: Joe Utichi Rating: