Thanks, Chris for correcting me. I meant to say CLIENT side
NOT server side. I apologize for the confusion.
Regarding the Dynamic part -it started with the CLIENT
side HTML, CSS and Javascript. When these tools started it
was just a way to "market" these tools together.
Cathy
Christopher Barr <christopher.barr villanova.edu> wrote:
In response to Cathy:
I would note that "Dynamic" is NOT a marketing
tool. Dynamic simply refers to pages that are built with
"server side scripting".
HTML, DHTML, javascript, and CSS are NOT server side... they
are client side and are processed by the web browser. For
example if you turn JavaScript off on your browser, it is a
client side change, and you won't see any functionality the
requires it in your browser. On the other hand PHP, Perl,
ASP, and ColdFusion are all server side languages. They
process commands and return HTML to the browser. It happens
something like this:
With a normal page: Client requests page.html, page.html is
sent to persons browser, the browser processes html, css,
and javascript and displays results.
With a dynamic page: Client request page.php, server
processes php commands, php might query the database or
include another file, results of query are sent back to php,
php script into html, html is sent to browser, browser
processes html, css, and javascript and displays results.
Hope that makes sense.
(And for what Sandra wants it is not really the job of the
database providers. She wants to create her own
searchable/sortable database of databases.)
Best,
Chris Barr
Villanova University
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:32 PM
To: Sandra Cahillane
Cc: Web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] loading database descriptions into
web page
Sandra,
You might want to contact UMass Amherst or contact the
vendors since they are more direct and the one has what you
want to implement.
The concept "dynamic" is a marketing tool. When
You hear or see the acronyms DHTML it is compromised of
HTML, CSS, and javascript it is the server side.
Cathy
Sandra Cahillane wrote:
Hello again,
Thank you all for your support. I really don't know how I've
gotten along
without you.
Here is my latest dilemma. I have someone capable of writing
me a script
that would load database descriptions into a web page for me
similar to
what they have at UMass Amherst
(h
ttp://www.library.umass.edu/cgi-bin/aka/databases.cgi?comman
d=viewdesc&id=5e413c58e05b0c653b4c01b7f85cb881).
That is, you click on an info button on my alpha list of
databases and a
separate page with a description of one specific database is
populated.
The problem is, I have no idea how to create the link that
would pull the
info from the database description pages, I'm assuming that
part would be
fairly simple though. Nor do I know how to format the
description page so
it would work with the script. The person I am working with
said to create
a "dynamic" HTML page, but I'm not sure what that
means. These days, I
though they were all dynamic.
Do I need to create individual pages for each database
description? Or is
their a way to create a page with all the database
descriptions and have
the appropriate data pulled depending on which database you
wanted info on?
Does anyone have pages/examples/sites they can share with me
that I could
work from?
Thanks in advance,
Sandy
Sandy Cahillane
Systems and Reference Librarian
Bay Path College
Hatch Library
588 Longmeadow Street
Longmeadow, MA 01106
(413) 567-4529 or (413) 565-1376
fax-(413) 567-8345
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