You can use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX to build a set of ColdFusion pages capable of deleting a record in a database table. To rapidly add this functionality to your web application, you can use the Delete Record server behavior. When the user clicks a link or a form button on the page, the Delete Record server behavior takes care of the details of deleting the record from the database.

For information on using this feature with PHP pages, see Building PHP pages that let users delete records.

To implement this functionality in an ASP or JSP web application, see "Building a page to delete a record" in Dreamweaver Help (Help > Using Dreamweaver).

Viewing the completed pages

Creating a page listing the records

Creating delete links

Creating a URL parameter for the links

Displaying the record on the confirmation page

Adding logic to delete the record

Deleting records without using a confirmation page

Creating the delete links (no confirmation page)

Creating a URL parameter (no confirmation page)

Adding logic to delete the record (no confirmation page)

Charles Nadeau Charles Nadeau is a lead technical writer on the Dreamweaver documentation team. 21 June 2002 ColdFusion, record, delete, database, table, Delete Record, server behavior, Dynamic Table, recordset, URL parameter, confirmation page, filter, tutorial 9937