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Joseph W. Lowery
"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"
But how does it handle images? Dreamweaver dynamically inserts images by
using the path to the image rather than the image itself. Proper database setup is critical for Dreamweaver to
correctly deliver dynamic images. For example, a product database might have the following records:
SKU# Name Cost Image
10101 Widget-O-Wonder $99.99 /images/products/w_wonder.gif
10102 WidgetMatic $49.99 /images/products/w_matic.gif
10103 Widget-Ultimo $999.99 /images/products/w_ultimo.gif
In this example, Dreamweaver extracts the data from the Image field and plugs that data into an attribute of
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tag??™s src attribute. Because site-root-relative links are used in the data source the images can be
inserted dynamically from any page in the site. If your dynamic images are located on a remote server, you
must enter a full URL??”with the http:// prefix??”in a text field in the data source.
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This routine works well for the site, but it would have to be modified to handle 12 Noon and 12 Midnight circumstances.
In addition to the Hour() function, VBScript has similar functions to extract other time elements:
Minute() and Second(). For dates, use the comparable Month(), Day(), and Year()
functions. All these functions return number values, which you can convert to names by further use of the
MonthName() function.
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using the path to the image rather than the image itself. Proper database setup is critical for Dreamweaver to
correctly deliver dynamic images. For example, a product database might have the following records:
SKU# Name Cost Image
10101 Widget-O-Wonder $99.99 /images/products/w_wonder.gif
10102 WidgetMatic $49.99 /images/products/w_matic.gif
10103 Widget-Ultimo $999.99 /images/products/w_ultimo.gif
In this example, Dreamweaver extracts the data from the Image field and plugs that data into an attribute of
the
inserted dynamically from any page in the site. If your dynamic images are located on a remote server, you
must enter a full URL??”with the http:// prefix??”in a text field in the data source.
683
Making Data Dynamic 20
This routine works well for the site, but it would have to be modified to handle 12 Noon and 12 Midnight circumstances.
In addition to the Hour() function, VBScript has similar functions to extract other time elements:
Minute() and Second(). For dates, use the comparable Month(), Day(), and Year()
functions. All these functions return number values, which you can convert to names by further use of the
MonthName() function.
Pages:
1181 1182 1183 1184 1185 1186 1187 1188 1189 1190 1191 1192 1193 1194 1195 1196 1197 1198 1199 1200 1201 1202 1203 1204 1205