Chapter 16. Data Sources

The Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Data Sources API functions let you add data sources, which appear in the Plus (+) menu in the Bindings panel (for related information, see the function dreamweaver.dbi.getDataSources() in the Dreamweaver API Reference).

Data source files are stored in the Configuration/DataSources/ServerModelName folder. Dreamweaver currently supports the following server models: ASP.Net/C#, ASP.Net/VisualBasic, ASP/JavaScript, ASP/VBScript, Macromedia ColdFusion, JSP, and PHP/MySQL. Within each server model subfolder are HTML and EDML files that are associated with the data sources for that server model.

The following table lists the files you use to create a data source:

Path	File	Description
Configuration/DataSources/ServerModelName	datasourcename.htm	Specifies the name of the data source and where to find the supporting JavaScript files.
Configuration/DataSources/ServerModelName	datasourcename.edml	Defines the code that Dreamweaver inserts into the document to represent the data source value.
Configuration/DataSources/ServerModelName	datasourcename.js	Contains the JavaScript functions to add, insert, and delete the necessary code into a document.