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Creating the Edit Interface

With the input page completed, you'll now move on to the second part of Gargantuan's Web interface. The rep has asked that you create an administration interface that will enable her to edit entries in the database. She'd like the ability to pull up a specific call entry and then make spelling and punctuation corrections as needed.

You envision the editing interface in three parts: the first, a list from which you can select a call to be edited; the second, a form in which to edit the text; and the third, an ACTION page to add edited text to the database.

The first template sounds simple enough. You'll just need to query the database for all records, which will appear in a list, as they do in index.cfm. In fact, you ...