Question about Administrator and User differences

I just need some clarification:

When I ran the Data Assist Wizard, I followed the gsg. The example defining the results page layout chooses the Administrative page type.

My question is do I ran the Data Assist Wizard again for the Public page type?

Then if that is the case, how are these diffences identified in the site? Do I create a link for public access without the ability to make any changes? And another link for admin? Or does this all become clear through user privilages?

Is the Data Assist search page what a vistor (user) will use to search for products? If so, I would not want them to have the ability to delete products and change price, etc.

I'm just a little confused here. Can you brief me?

Much Thanks!

johna1964

the admin page type and user page type are really just predefined layouts for the results page.

you can design the user facing pages using the admin payout if you like, or use the user layout, either one will work.

when creating the user facing pages, set the wizard to create only the search, results and detail page, do not include the update, insert or delete pages.


you will want to use security assist to restrict access to the admin pages.

Thanks for the reply...

I'm still a little confused...

The results page still has access to delete, insert and update. This is where I am confused...

The search capability for the users is a separate wizard: Data Assist Search Wizard?

Thanks!

Johna

Jason,

I think where my confusion is because I am not understanding how the administrative backend ties into the front end. I understand the why's I'm just not understanding the how.

Do I have a link on the site specifically for admin access?

Thanks

johna1964

Jason,

What I have done is run the Data Assist Wizard again as you specified for visitors and renamed the files to distinguish the difference. I think this will work...my next quest is to ask how to add the php for the image alt name. I went ahead and created a new column in the database for this purpose. I just need to know how to add the image name (alt) into the site.

If you could assist me in this effort, that would be wonderful...

Thanks again!

johna1964

in the first step of the data assist wizard, set the admin pages to be created in the admin folder by adding the folder name in front of the page name

admin/results.php

for the user pages, dont add the folder name in front, so they will be created in diffreant pages.


for the alt tag, edit the code to add the recordset binding:

alt="<?php echo $row_RecordsetName['ColumnName']; ?>"


where RecordsetName is the name of yuour recordset and ColumnName is the name of your column.