Oracle Tips by Burleson

Before Footer Computations and Processes

Many web sites display information in the after footer region that may be dynamic in nature and not a candidate to be hard coded onto a web page.  Therefore, it would be best to store it in the database and select it during page rendering.  The before footer process is just the place to put this.  Of course, this could also be done with a computation or process that executed at an earlier point, but the preference is to execute them closest to the point where they are going to be used.

After Footer Computations and Processes

There is not too much use putting computations or processes here because by the time they are executed, the page has finished being rendered.  However, to write a record to the database to keep track of the number of times a page was viewed or the ending time of when the page finished being rendered, this is a good place for it. The HTML code below will show the after footer process is executed after all HTML has been rendered.

</script>
</body>
</html>AfterFooter Process Point

The above book excerpt is from:

Easy HTML-DB Oracle Application Express

Create Dynamic Web Pages with OAE

ISBN 0-9761573-1-4   

Michael Cunningham & Kent Crotty

http://www.rampant-books.com/book_2005_2_html_db.htm