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Databases on the Web
Web databases are becoming an essential tool for businesses and organizations to gather, share, and manage information. Interacting with databases on the Web ranges from a simple form for adding people to an emailing list, to checking inventory and using a shopping cart on an e-commerce site.
We have a range of courses that can help you set up and manage the database interactivity you need for your site.
- Courses to help you create forms
- Courses that add client-side interactivity
- Courses on storing and processing the data on your server
- Related courses
For more information on these courses, click the course title for a complete description, or call Paul Westermann at (314) 984-9000.
Create Basic Forms for User Input and Queries
Forms are everywhere on the Web. You may fill in a form to find out if a class if full, to buy books, or to update your e-mail address for an online newsletter. These courses teach you how to create forms so that your user can send information to your Web server and database.
- Advanced Applications of HTML
- Advanced Applications of Dreamweaver
- Special Topics in Acrobat: Forms
Form basics, as well as simple JavaScript and how to send your form data to a server and then view the results.
Enhance Forms With Client-Side Interactivity
Learn how to add interactive features to your forms. These courses can show you how to make sure there are no errors on a form (such as too many digits in a zipcode), as well as calculate the taxes and totals in a shopping cart.
- JavaScript Course Series
These three levels teach the essentials of JavaScript. In particular, the Intermediate Applications of JavaScript deals with JavaScript and forms and client-side form validation . - ColdFusion Course Series
Although ColdFusion is primarily known as a server technology, it also can generate JavaScript client-side code for form validation and processing. The three ColdFusion courses cover both the client- and server-side functions.
Store and Process Data on a Server
Once the form is submitted, the data must be processed on the Web server. Learn how your customers can add their names and addresses to your database, as well as how they can use forms to find out how many items are still in stock. The following courses guide you through this data management using the most popular technologies.
- ASP and ASP .NET Course Series
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's technology for database interactivity on the Web. The ASP series uses VBScript. We also offer two ASP .NET series: ASP .NET Using Visual Basic .NET and ASP .NET Using Visual Basic 2005. Each series has three levels of courses. - PHP Course Series
This two-course series cover the basics of PHP, a server-side, HTML-embedded product. This open source technology processes the scripting language that you write, creates HTML, and sends it down to the browser. - ColdFusion Course Series
We have a three-course series on using Macromedia's ColdFusion. ColdFusion uses tags on the back-end server to generate HTML code, which is downloaded to the user�s browser. These pages can also include JavaScript code, which is used for client-side validation and processing. - Perl Programming
Perl is a cross-platform programming language that works with HTML, XML, and CGI in developing Web database scripts. It is the most popular Web programming language.
Programming courses:
- Java
- Visual C# (Visual C# .NET and Visual C# 2005)
- Visual Basic (VB 6, VB .NET, and VB 2005)
Learning SQL commands.
Setting up and maintaining a database:
- Access
- FileMaker
In Advanced Applications of FileMaker, you'll create an interactive Web site that allows for data retrieval as well as manipulation and editing. - SQL Server Administration
