Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 - Manual (Page 656)

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Trio Motors is a leading automobile manufacturer.
Be sure to visit our Sales page.
The web server sends the page to the requesting browser, which displays it as follows:
About Trio Motors
Trio Motors is a leading automobile manufacturer.
Be sure to visit our Sales page.
You choose a scripting or tag-based language to use depending on the server technology available on your server. Here are the most popular
languages for the server technologies supported by Dreamweaver:
Server technology Language
ColdFusion ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
Active Server Pages (ASP) VBScript
JavaScript
PHP PHP
Dreamweaver can create the server-side scripts or tags necessary to make your pages work, or you can write them by hand in the Dreamweaver
coding environment.
Web application terminology
This section defines frequently used terms relating to web applications.
An application server Software that helps a web server process web pages containing server-side scripts or tags. When such a page is
requested from the server, the web server hands the page off to the application server for processing before sending the page to the browser. For
more information, see How a web application works.
Common application servers include ColdFusion and PHP.
A database A collection of data stored in tables. Each row of a table constitutes one record and each column constitutes a field in the record, as
shown in the following example:
A database driver Software that acts as an interpreter between a web application and a database. Data in a database is stored in a proprietary
format. A database driver lets the web application read and manipulate data that would otherwise be undecipherable.
A database management system (DBMS, or database system) Software used to create and manipulate databases. Common database systems
include Microsoft Access, Oracle 9i, and MySQL.
A database query The operation that extracts a recordset from a database. A query consists of search criteria expressed in a database language
called SQL. For example, the query can specify that only certain columns or only certain records be included in the recordset.
A dynamic page A web page customized by an application server before the page is sent to a browser.
A recordset A set of data extracted from one or more tables in a database, as in the following example:
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