ODBiC provides commands for connecting to databases and executing SQL, but it also provides many other useful commands to facilitate dynamic, interactive Web page generation. If you are not, there is much information available on the Web, and you will need this information to use ODBiC effectively. For the HTML part, you might consider using one of the specialized Web page editors. But these templates also contain ODBiC commands and variable references. When ODBiC finds a command statement, that statement is executed immediately.
Some commands cause text to be inserted into the output at that point.
When ODBiC finds a variable reference, the current value of the variable is substituted at that point. They may be used anywhere in the text to be output, in HTML tags, or in ODBiC commands. ODBiC Template Files Template files are the input to ODBiC and they control the output as stated above. They will look very similar to normal HTML Web page files. In fact, you may wish to start with an existing Web page and add the ODBiC commands.