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Building a simple database search feature

You can use Dreamweaver UltraDev to build pages that let users search your databases. This article describes how to build a basic set of pages that lets users conduct database searches based on a single search parameter, then lets them read the results on a single page.

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Databases

Text Search - CONTAINS

'CONTAINS' is a predicate used to search columns containing character-based data types for precise or fuzzy (less precise) matches to single words and phrases, the proximity of words within a certain distance of one another, or weighted matches.

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Databases

Textual Searches on File Data Using Microsoft SQL Server

This article discusses facets of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 textual searches such as: how SQL queries can be used on file systems lacking tables; how to use SQL extensions to make full-text queries; and how to work with a combination of file and database information. This article also discusses how BackOffice products (including: SQL Server distributed queries, Window NT Server's built-in Web Server, Internet Information Server (IIS), and Index Server 2.0) support textual searches in SQL Server 7.0

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Server Side

Implement your own Send To Friend script to spread the word about your site.

This short tutorial teaches you how to implement your own send to friend feature, allowing your users to share links to their favorite pages with their friends. This is a great way to spread the word about your site, and gain new visitors. Read More
CSS

Boxing with CSS, Part II: No Margin For Error

We'll start off gently by looking at the properties that control box borders in CSS, and see which of these are supported by the browsers. We'll then go on to explain the basics of how Internet Explorer handles the parts of the formatting model we've discussed so far. Then we take a deep dive into Netscape waters as we see that Netscape doesn't really support the formatting model at all, but merely interprets the properties in its own way.

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CSS

Boxing with CSS, Part I: The Theory

The CSS visual formatting model is a way of laying out documents on visual media (such as a computer screen or a printed page). By all accounts, it is a very simple formatting model, and the publishing world has seen much more complicated ones. Still, it is not something that is simple to explain or grasp in a few words.

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CSS

CSS Positioning, Part II

CSS positioning a feature of CSS2 that is implemented better than many others in Internet Explorer and Navigator. This isn't very high praise for either browser, however, as it's not implemented very well at all. None the less, it can be made to do what you want it to do. In the following pages, we'll examine a technique that will create multi-column layouts for Web pages that works with all current CSS-supporting browsers Read More
CSS

CSS Positioning, Part I

In this tutorial, we'll take a look at the theory behind CSS-based page layout, and explain how to do things according to the specification. In the next tutorial, we'll put this theory to the test and see how you can work around the numerous bugs in most modern browsers in order to achieve the effects you desire Read More
Manuals

Pure ASP Upload Tutorial by Leon Radley

Tutorial for PureASP upload extension... It's easy...

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Databases

E-commerce Database Design - Part II

This is the second installment in an explanation of Database Design for Ultradev E-commerce application developers. It's based on my database experience (and all the mistakes I made along the way) with building E-commerce apps in Drumbeat 2000. I hope it's helpful

Author: Rick Curtis

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