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By following this tutorial you will learn how to use MX AJAX Toolbox to build a "dynamic" AJAX-based site (use a database). Most of the site pages content is retrieved from the database you connected to. In the Build a Company Presentation Website tutorial you created the site pages without using a database, but by entering the pages content manually.
In this tutorial you will build a catalog of favorite artists and albums. Similar applications can be built, such as: catalog of writers and books, company departments and employees, categories and products etc.
For building this web application you will:
Retrieve the artist names from the database and add them as items in the site menu. These AJAX links will display, on mouse-over, a rich-text tooltip (artist picture and short description).
For each artist, create an AJAX dynamic table containing your favorite albums from that artist.
Offer to the site visitors the possibility to rate albums.
Transform each album title into an AJAX link that points to the album details page.
The only Dreamweaver extension you need in order to follow this tutorial is:
Note: If you also install PHAkt (free product - Try), you will be able to use the PHP ADODB server model. The only difference between the instructions for PHP ADODB and PHP MySQL (these are the only two server models that MX AJAX Toolbox supports) stays in the definition of the database connection.
The estimated completion time for this tutorial is 45 minutes. It also depends on your authoring knowledge with Dreamweaver and MX AJAX Toolbox.
Plan the music catalog application
Build the "dynamic" AJAX site and its structure
Add artist names as items in the Menu panel