Database Integration

Let Your Website Do All the Work

An example of the integration of data from a database within web pages is EatLI.com, which LIMedia designed to rely heavily on information stored in a database. As you browse through this site, keep in mind that everything you see on the menus is pulled from a database and formatted automatically on the fly.

Web pages such as these, which draw their entire content from a database, are both powerful and easy to update with new or modified content. For example, let's say a restaurant owner wants to add two new items to a menu, delete one, and increase the prices on all of the other items. This can be done without having to make any changes at all to the web page itself.  Simply updating the database records will ensure that the changes will be automatically displayed the very next time the web page is accessed.

How is this done? It requires code that will run on the web server to generate and format the web page after accessing the information in the database. We can even set things up so that you can make your own changes by using simple data entry forms, which we will custom design for your business.

A database can also be used to store visitor input.  For instance, EatLI.com allows diners to request their favorite  restaurants via a form on the website. When the form is submitted, the information they have entered is stored automatically into a database. Using database integration in this way is highly useful for gathering information from customers, storing details of purchases, or allowing visitors to contribute to the content of your website.