How GoLive Dynamic Content works

Dynamic Web sites work by having ASP, JSP, or PHP code on the Web page that is executed by the server. This code opens connections to databases, extracts or updates information, and performs other functions. Some of the information is left on the page for display to the user or as hidden form fields for use in form actions. If you look at a page source after making a site and page dynamic, you will see some include or require references to other files and classes in your site (ASP and PHP work by referencing other files by name; JSP works by naming other classes, which are located using Java's class search mechanisms). Code on your Web page can call functions in these referenced external files. GoLive sets all of this up automatically. The additional files are placed in the config folder and WEB-INF folder (JSP only). None of these files and none of the code added to the page is sent to the browser--all of it is processed on the server and removed before HTML is sent to the browser for display. The only thing that adds to the length of time it takes to send a page is the dynamic content you actually display for the viewer.