Chapter 12. Creating Pages for Editing Records

Editing database records involves inserting new records and updating or deleting existing ones. You can edit database records in the application you used to create the database, such as Microsoft Access or MySQL, or you can create dynamic Web pages from which to edit them. Using a Web page for editing database records has two main advantages: You don’t need to have the database application installed on your computer, and you or other users don’t need to know how to use the database application to edit records.

In this chapter, you’ll learn the following:

• Two ways to insert new records: by adding a form and an Insert Record server behavior to a Web page, or by adding a Record Insertion Form Wizard ...

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