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Chapter 17: Server behaviors
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 provides users with an interface for adding server behaviors into their
documents to perform server-side tasks such as filtering records based on user criteria, paging
through records, linking result lists to details pages, and inserting records into a result set. If a
Dreamweaver user repeatedly inserts the same runtime code into documents, you can create a
new extension to automate updating a document with these frequently used code blocks. For
details about working with the Server Behavior Builder interface to implement a custom server
behavior, see "Adding Custom Server Behaviors" in Getting Started with Dreamweaver. Then,
refer to this chapter for details about working with the supporting server behavior files and the
functions that interact with established server behaviors. For individual function information,
see "Server Behavior functions" and "Extension Data Manager functions" in the Dreamweaver
API Reference. Dreamweaver currently supports server behaviors extensions that add runtime
code for the following server models: ASP.NET/C#, ASP.NET/VisualBasic, ASP/JavaScript,
ASP/VBScript, ColdFusion, JSP, and PHP/MySQL.
The following terms are used throughout this section:
Server behaviors extension The server behaviors extension is the interface between server-
side code and Dreamweaver. A server behaviors extension consists of JavaScript, HTML, and
Extension Data Markup Language (EDML), which is XML that is created specifically for
extension data. Examples of these files reside in your installation folder in the Configu-
ration/ServerBehaviors folder, arranged according to server model. When you write script for an
extension, use the function to instruct Dreamweaver to read the EDML
dwscripts.applySB()
files, retrieve the components of your extension, and add the appropriate code blocks to the
user's document.
Server behavior instance When Dreamweaver adds code blocks to a user's document, the
inserted code constitutes an instance of the server behavior. The user can apply most server
behaviors more than once, which results in multiple server behavior instances. Each server
behavior instance is listed in the Server Behaviors panel of the Dreamweaver interface.
Runtime code Runtime code is the set of code blocks that are added to a document when a
server behavior is applied. These code blocks usually include some server-side code, such as ASP
script that is enclosed in tags.
<% ... %>