Product Screenshots:
Analyze Data	Code Snippets	Data Backup
Edit Content	Edit Form	Edit Permissions
Edit Template	File Utility/Browser	Preview Form
Group Listing	Send Mail	Link Tracking

You can also add powerful premade solutions such as a Help Ticket System, a Discussion Board, a Blog, Contact Forms, and all of these packages are completely integrated, so your users can register once, and have access to all of the prebuilt packages. One login, all access. (To access the examples on our site use the username of testuser, and the password of password)

The Administration Panel is your key to manage site content, create Input Unlimited Custom Input Forms, create Code Snippets to place in your source code, manage site Templates, Members, Site Settings, and more. Everything you need to take control of your website.

We invite you to download the software for free ! When you install the software on your webserver, a Free License will be created for you, and grant you access to a portion of Databake Software. By upgrading the license to a Full License, the entire Administration Panel will be unlocked. The License Upgrade is just $49.95.

Understanding the Databake Concept

Databake works two ways:

1. managing content (Administration Panel)
2. developing your webpages. (Code Snippets)

The Administration Panel is used to create, and manage all of your content, including data, templates, etc.
The Code Snippets are used to integrate the content you have created in the Administration Panel into your webpages.

For example:
Let's assume you enter content into the Administration Panel. You would then create a Code Snippet (also in the Administration Panel), and place it in your webpage source code to publish that article.

Again, Administration Panel manages content, and code snippets execute functions that will manipulate that content on your pages. Below is a schematic to show you how Data is Exchanged from the Database, to Databake, to your webpages.



Using Databake Software

Get Organized

Databake is based on Group and Category organization. All of the data you collect needs to be placed into ONE group, and ONE category, this is mandatory! We have created a Group called "Default Group" and a category called "Default Category" to get you started. If you have purchased a full license you may create additional Groups and Categories at your pleasure. You can then use Code Snippets to work with content in Groups and Categories that you specify.

Collect Data into Databake (entering content)

We provide the ability to create Forms that will collect data (content) into your database automatically. So to get started collecting data you would need to create a FORM. Click "Forms" in the main navigation menu, then click "Create New Form" to get started.

Once you have created your Form, you can add content to that form, by clicking "Content" in the main navigation menu, and then "Create New Content". You will then be prompted to select the Form you would like to use to fill in and collect your data.

Adding Some Style

Once you have collected your content into Databake using the Administration Panel, you can do MANY different things with that Content. You can publish the Content to your web pages, you can perform calculations on the data, or you can write your own plugins to operate on the data however you see fit.

So let's publish the data on your page. To do this, the first thing you must do is create a Template.Templates will add formatting to your content, and will allow you to maintain a consistent design for your webpages.

To do this, click "Templates, then click "Create New Template". You will be prompted to select the Form you wish to create a template for, and the type of Template you wish to create. (We suggest you almost always select "Advanced" Template).

The "fields" that you created in your Form, will show in the textarea of the "Create Template" screen, and are surrounded by "[[" and "]]". This is very important. When Databake publishes your content, it will replace the value in between the brackets with the actual value from the database. So basically the brackets are placeholders for your database content.

You can Open the HTML Editor to simply add HTML to your template and when you are finished click "Create Template". You can edit this Template at any time to change your design.

Using Code Snippets on Your Webpages

So you created a Form, Added some Content, created a Template....now let's get the Content onto your live webpage!

There is one thing you must do to activate your webpages so Databake can "communicate" with them.

You must:

1. 1. Copy the db_include.php file that is located in "databake/includes/common_inc/db_include.php" into the SAME FOLDER that contains the file you wish to publish content on.
2. 2. You must also save the file you are working on as a .php file.
3. 3. Create a "Code Snippet" and place it in your webpage source code, and upload the file to your server.

Navigate to the page with your favorite browser to see the results.