Dynamic Form Creation and Language Translation Using Structures

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Dynamic Form Creation and Language Translation
Using Structures

• Jo E. Belyea-Doerrman
• Jo_at_jobdoer.com
• August 8, 2000

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Outline

• Challenge
• The Solutions
• Demonstration of Solutions
• Flowchart and Database
• Show us the CODE!!!
• Lessons Learned

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The Challenge

• Site is to be completely dynamic and translatable
  but the customer doesnt want to use Spectra

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The Solutions

• We took two different approaches to solving our
  problem.

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The Solutions

• Solution One
• Create and Store the form as a structure in the
  DB
• Store content in Relational DB tables.
• Solution Two
• Store the structure and content together in the
  DB.

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Solution One Dynamic Surveys

• Create Surveys on the fly
• Administrator does not need to know HTML
• Content is stored dynamically so no one need
  touch the database.
• Needs to be easy for the administrator to manage
  and create.

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Solution Two Dynamic Translatable Navigational
Bars

• Create a Navigational Bar that can
• Be used by a variety of organizations that pool
  their application resources
• Be translated
• Easy to use!!

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Demonstration of Solutions

• http//127.0.0.1/demo

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Flowchart and Database

• A must before even thinking about the code

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Tables that make up the survey
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Tables that hold the content
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Tables that hold the Navigational Bars
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Show us the CODE!!!
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Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned

• Cold Fusion does not handle double-byte languages
  (Cyrillic, Kanji or Chinese) correctly
• Translatable meant every element including alt
  tags
• You can use different approaches to solve similar
  problems