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The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the options described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more information, see this article.
Your web application can contain a page that requires users to register the first time they visit your site.
A registration page is made up of the following building blocks:
A database table to store login information about the users
An HTML form that lets users select a user name and password
You can also use the form to obtain other personal information from users.
An Insert Record server behavior to update the database table of site users
A Check New Username server behavior to make sure the user name entered by the user is not taken by another user
- Make sure your database table contains a user name and a password column. If you want logged‑in users to have different access privileges, include an access privilege column.
- If you want to set a common password for all users of the site, configure your database application (Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and so on) to enter the password in each new user record by default. In most database applications, you can set a column to a default value each time a new record is created. Set the default value to the password.
- You can also use the database table to store other useful
information about the user.
The next step in creating a registration page is to add an HTML form to the registration page to let users choose a user name and password (if applicable).
You add an HTML form to the registration page to let users select a user name and password (if applicable).
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The form can also have more form objects to record other personal data.
You should add labels (either as text or images) beside each form object to tell users what they are. You should also line up the form objects by placing them inside an HTML table. For more information on form objects, see Creating web forms.
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You can change the label of the Submit button by selecting the button, opening the Property inspector (Window > Properties), and entering a new value in the Value box.
The next step in creating a registration page is to add the Insert Record server behavior to insert records in the table of users in the database.
You must add an Insert Record server behavior to the registration page to update the table of users in the database.
You can add a server behavior to a user registration page that verifies that the user name is unique before adding that user to your database of registered users.
When the user clicks the Submit button on the registration page, the server behavior compares the user name entered by the user against the user names stored in a database table of registered users. If no matching user name is found in the database table, the server behavior carries out the insert record operation normally. If a matching user name is found, the server behavior cancels the insert record operation and opens a new page (usually a page alerting the user that the user name is already taken).
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