What is a “data-base” driven web site?
A data-base driven web site or page is a specific and common type of Web Application. It is a site that receives it’s content (as displayed on the page) from an external data source. Unlike ordinary HTML pages, the content (data), is completely separated from the HTML based web page. The data is “retrieved on the fly” and is “fed into” the page at run time (at that moment when the person actually views the page). As a result, data-base driven pages, by necessity, contain advanced code enabling them to interface (communicate) with the data-base. A data-base driven web page typically takes the following steps: • The user enters search criteria into a form indicating the desired records OR this information is “pre-programmed” into a link itself. User may also indicate how these records should be sorted. • A program (data-base interface software) receives the user’s search criteria (whether user entered it into a text field or it was pre-programmed into a link) and passes it to the Data-Ba
