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Web Database Courses

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.

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.

 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.

  • Advanced Topics in Dreamweaver for Power Users
    This course teaches the basics of connecting a Dreamweaver form to a database. Internet Information Server (IIS) and ASP code is used to make this connection through the Dreamweaver interface and Wizards. We don't cover database fundamentals or setting up IIS or ASP.  
  • Special Topics in FrontPage: Interactive Web Pages
     This course uses FrontPage Wizards to combine forms with ASP. Learn to place information from a database on your Web and create simple SQL queries so that users can look up data.
  • 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.
  • Special Topics in XML and ASP Course Series
    XML is the Web standard used to describe and transfer data, just as HTML is the standard to format and display data. This two-course series (Special Topics in XML: Introduction to XML and ASP and Special Topics in XML: Intermediate XML and ASP) covers how to use XMLalong with ASP technology to describe, store, and send information and process the database information.
  • 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.

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Setting up and administering a Web server:

Programming courses:

Learning SQL commands.

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