Tuto WEBDEV 25

Part 1: Discovering WEBDEV 35 Intranet/Extranet/Internet Principle An Intranet or Extranet site is often considered as being a management application in Web mode, which means an application run in a browser. This Web application can present: • business features intended for specific users, • processes that must be secured: not everyone should be able to access the application. The Web application can be accessed: • from a company network only, in which case we talk of Intranet site . • from Internet, in which case we talk of Extranet site . In both cases, the Web application is secured by managing logins, passwords, rights, etc. An Internet site is a site meant for "public" consumption (business users or regular users). An Internet site must be easily found on the Web. Some examples: presentation site, e-commerce site, ... To bring more Web users to your site, the site must be referenced by the search engines. In order for the search engines to reference each page properly, an additional constraint appears: the site pages must be accessible at any time. But this constraint is also a guarantee of simplicity for the Web user: he can easily copy/paste a link from a page and re-use this link whenever required. And in WEBDEV? (Session/AWP, PHP, Static) In WEBDEV, to develop an Intranet or Extranet site , the "Session" mode is more suitable because it includes the following features: integrated security, automatic contexts. Indeed, the Session mode includes automatic sessions. The session identifier is included in the URL. The address for the pages depends on this identifier which changes for each connection. Drawback: The search engines cannot index this site. In WEBDEV, to develop an Internet site , you can choose one of the following modes: • The AWP mode (Active WEBDEV Page). • The PHP generation mode. • The static mode if your site contains preset pages only (no database).