For some time now you have had a Products +Services link, or a similar link, on the homepage of your business. Previously that link would have simply taken you to a static web page display showing...

For some time now you have had a Products +Services link, or a similar link, on the homepage of your business. Previously that link would have simply taken you to a static web page display showing what your business offers for sale. Now you must make that page dynamic, as outlined in the following exercises.

1. Your Products +Services (or analogous) link must be converted to a dropdown menu list, and the first option on that list must take the user to a new page showing the various categories of products and/or services your business offers for sale, analogous to the page display seen in Figure 10.24. Each of the links on this page will, in turn, be attached to a PHP script that connects to your database, retrieves the necessary product and/or service information for all the products and/or services in a particular category, and displays this information for the user in a new page, using an appropriate format.


2. Design and implement the necessary PHP scripts for the “back-end” processing required to implement the functionality described in exercise 1 above. As a minimum, your website should allow the user to see a full “catalog” list of all categories of products and services that you offer, and clicking on a “category link” should produce a suitable display of all products in that category.