Tutorial: Contact Management Application

In this tutorial you will use MX Kollection 3 features to build a web application for managing the contacts of a person or company. Multiple companies or individuals can be created, each with one or more contacts. The application will let you:

• Display a full list of companies and their corresponding contacts.
• Add a new company to the database.
• Delete an existing company, together with all associated contacts.
• Add a new company and its main contact simultaneously.
• Add, modify or delete contacts for a company.
• Validate entered e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
• Send automatic birthday greetings by e-mail.

This tutorial contains four main sections, starting from the basic functionality, and enriching it with different features:

1. Planning out your application.
2. Building pages that allow basic functionality.
3. Adding features to improve safety and usability.
4. Enhance the Contact Management Application by adding some extra options.

If you have the MX Kollection 3 bundle installed, then you have all the needed tools. Otherwise, the following separate products should be installed on your computer in order to complete the Contact Management Application tutorial:

• ImpAKT
• MX Form Validation
• MX Looper
• MX Send E-mail
• MX Query Builder

The estimated completion time for this tutorial (considering the initial planning, the mandatory sections and the proposed improvements) is about 100 minutes. It also depends on your authoring knowledge with Macromedia Dreamweaver and MX Kollection 3.

It's recommended that you follow this tutorial in the intended order to avoid potential problems.

Contents

Plan the Contact Management Application

Add, Edit and Delete Companies and Contacts

Validate Contact Information

Improve the Contact Management Application