MMDB.getConnection()

Availability

Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, enhanced in Dreamweaver MX.

Description

This function gets a named connection object.

Arguments

name

The name argument is a string variable that specifies the name of the connection that you want to reference.

Returns

A reference to a named connection object. Connection objects contain the following properties:

Property	Description
`name`	Connection name
`type`	Indicates, if `useHTTP` is a value of `false`, which DLL to use for connecting to a database at runtime
`string`	Runtime ADO connection string or JDBC URL
`dsn`	ColdFusion DSN
`driver`	Runtime JDBC driver
`username`	Runtime user name
`password`	Runtime password
`useHTTP`	String that contains either a `true` or `false` value, specifying whether to use a remote driver (HTTP connection) at design time; otherwise, use a local driver (DLL)
`includePattern`	Regular expression used to find the file include statement on the page during Live Data and Preview In Browser
`variables`	Array of page variable names and their corresponding values used during Live Data and Preview In Browser
`catalog`	Used to restrict the metadata that appears (for more information, see MMDB.getProcedures())
`schema`	Used to restrict the metadata that appears (for more information, see MMDB.getProcedures())
`filename`	Filename of dialog box that was used to create the connection

NOTE

These properties are the standard ones that Dreamweaver implements. Developers can define their connection types and add new properties to this standard set or provide a different set of properties.

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