Part1: What do I need to get started?
Since I am doing this locally on my machine For this to work you will need to have the software below installed. Also if you want to apply this to your live web site, your hosting company need to run PHP MYSQL

1. WAMP5 : http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php

2. EMS SQL Manager for MySQL (WAMP5 comes with a sql manager, you can use it, or which ever one you are familiar with.
    

Download and install both software, if you installed wamp5, by default it would create a folder located in C:\wamp\www\, create two more folders inside the www\ directory called localroot and the other webroot.

Part2: Creating the database and tables.
Start up EMS and click on the create new database icon.

Create a new database with the name, affiliates_db and click next, and you will see the window below.

Click next and Finish. When you do that you should see the Registration database window. Just click ok. We need to create the user to access the database click on the User Manager Icon . Change the Servers to Localhost and click ok. At this point click on the Add User Icon when you do that you will see the window below.

This is just a demonstration, so your username and password will be different. Make sure to select All Privileges and With Grant option. With that click ok to apply the settings.

Double click on the database you just created.

When you do that you will connect to the database where you will be able to see the tables.

With that click on the Create new table icon shown below.

With that it should send you into the Table Properties window. Click on the Fields tab.

Double click on the Column and enter the information shown below, below is how your table should look..

Table 1

With that click on Compile after your tables has finished compiling click on Data

Click on to Insert Record. Fill in the information shown below. The id is an auto increment so you don't need to do anything with that. After each data entry make sure to click on Post Edit

This is how your table should look, with the data entered. The image location will be different depending on where you place the images.

Well we are finished with the database part.

Part3: Setting up Dreamweaver and creating the form.
Start up Dreamweaver and click New Site Manage Sites..

and click New Site. Click on the Advanced Tab and you will see the window below. Click on Local Info and fill in the information shown.

Local Info

Remote Info

Testing Server 

When you are finished click ok, Done

Part4: Creating the Affiliates page, and connecting to the database.
Click File New... and click on Dynamic Page PHP and click Create. Hit Ctrl+S and save your site as affiliates.php

Click on the Shown in the databases tab and click on MySQL Connection.

With that the window below will come up. Fill in the information shown below.

This information has to match up with what you created using EMS, The password I used is pixeldigest.

Next click on Select, select the affiliates_db database and click ok twice.

At this point you will organize how you want to search result to be displayed.  Click on Bindings and create a new Recordset by clicking on the . Create the Recordset according to the image.

With the Recordset window still open, click on Advanced.. and in the SQL window change:

SELECT *
FROM table1
ORDER BY id ASC

to

SELECT *
FROM table1
ORDER BY id RAND()

and click ok.

Click on the (+) next Recordset, you will see the fields shown above.

Create the table shown below.

2 row 1 column

Click inside the top rectangle we will add an image. To add an image click on image icon and click on Data Source

click on imageURL, and click ok twice. With that you should see what I have below.

Click on the image icon to select it, in the prosperities window you will see the options below.

Click on the yellow folder next Link option. After clicking on the yellow folder it will bring up the select file window, from there click on parameter, with that you will see the window below

In the Name field Type in id, in the value window click on the lightning bolt and select address as shown below.

Click ok two times, until you get to the select file window, Dreamweaver will not let you click ok with out selecting a file so select affiliates.php and click ok. New need to edit the link, in the link window you will see this code:

affiliates.php?id=<?php echo $row_rs_23['address']; ?>

replace it with

<?php echo $row_rs_23['address']; ?>

Now just drag the names over to the table from the recordset.

Click on the table and select the table code shown below.

When you click on the table tag it will select your table. With the table selected click on Server behavior located in the Application window. From there click on the and select Repeat Region

When the window above comes up click on Show and change the value to 5. This is how many records you want to display at a time. Since I only have 10 record in this demo I will set the number to 5. Now hit F+12 to preview your work, F+5 will refresh your page to test it.

That is it, here is a video of the random affiliate script. Click Here

Finished:
Well that is it, hope it came out to what you expected. If you have any question or comment about this tutorial, feel free to post a message on the forum.

This Tutorial was Created By Mark
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