Dynamic content

[BlanthyColino]

I am trying to think of a way to develop the following type of application...

I want visitors to be able to create flyers, postcards, etc. with dynamic
content that they either upload themselves or pull off of the server. I want
them to have both of those options. The flyers, postcards, etc. layouts will be
created in advance and the visitor will upload to designated areas on the
layout. I invision the layout appearing on the screen with buttons at the
locations where they are able to change data. When they push the button a popup
appears with a field for uploading and below that a list of content that is
stored on the server that they are able to choose from. Once they fill in all
the info. they will click create and be taken to a page that offers the option
of creating a PDF or an email. Ideally I would like them to be able to send the
email version right from there.

I have been tossing around the language I would want to do such a thing in. I
am much more adept at flash than PHP, javascript etc.. I was hoping that there
might be a way I could use flash to create something like this...? I've also
considered using dreamweaver with coldfusion.

How involved is a project like this? What would be the best
software/language/mark up to use? Could Flash be used as a tool in creating
something like this? Would dreamweaver be better? Any other thoughts would be
great too.

Looking forward to your responses!

Thanks!

Blanthy

[Jim Esteban]

You will need some other language like ASP, Coldfusion, or PHP in order to transfer data back and forth between the server and flash, but I think flash would be a good environment to build the UI in.

[grahamdeuchar]

Hi guys,

I'm currently looking into developing a website that will allow me to
dynamically create paths to the root folder etc for easy access images and the
possibility of future expansion.

My problem occurs when I have a PHP-generated variable image path in
Dreamweaver, for example:

$path_to_doc_root/images/$brand/image.gif

The above path wouldn't allow me to actually view the image in Dreamweaver's
design pane. Is there any way of allowing visual editing of content?

Cheers,
Graham

[jheibeck]

I work for a government board with >1200 users. I've created a mySQL DB to
hold all of the software serial numbers we have purchased that our techs need
to access. The table is very simple with 3 fields; company, product, and
serial.

I'm using Dreamweaver 8.1.

I'd like to create a form with the fields from the DB. The company and
product fields should be drop down boxes. I can create, using DW's Dynamic
forms utility, a dynamically populated company field. But, I would like to
FILTER the list so it only shows a company once. I don't see any way to do
this in DW. Then the selected company will cause the product field to be
populated with only the products from that company. When the product is
chosen, the serial should appear in the 3rd field. It would be nice if this
was automatic, but a button would suffice.

The code DW creates is very complex, and I don't feel up to editing much of it
by hand.

First, I can't figure out how to filter the company so that there are no
duplicates.

Second, I can almost see the code in my head to filter based upon the company
field, but a variable would need to be created in the first step.

Third, I think I could figure out how to present the serial using the first 2
fields, but any help would be nice.

Is there any way Dreamweaver can do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks