Ok, here's a cooking list. I'll assume we're starting from
scratch:
- Linux
- Apache
- Postgres 7.2 or 7.3 (incl with recent redhat)
Let's create the database..
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serious ++Improv - what a star. I hereby swallow all my words about "possible volunteers" - and email support to boot! :)
Cheers,
Ben
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Thankyou Iprov
I will take you up on the offer I emailed you seperately just incase you didn't get the email I will post a copy here for you.
Hi this is Tina aka Divine2aT
Can you put this up for me if I give you the web URL and Permission to use the
file server ect. to my web page. I am scared I don't want to mess everything up.
I do not no how to wright scripts like this and I am really bad with directions when it comes to anything to do with HTML CGI PERL the scripts I do have on my page where copies made by others on a shared HTML goodies like page with very simple directions
the forms I wanted them to ask
Your Name at time of Birth : First M. Last
DOB of Adoptee : MM/DD/YYYY
City, ST-State of Birth : City Name, ST Abbr.- State Name
In Search Of : Bmom, Bdad, Bsis, Bbro, Bson, Bdau, Bpar
Current email Address : your email@ your host.com
Date of Post Date : MM/DD/YY
URL web address if any : your http:// www. url .com
and I wanted it to auto post itself to any proper designated page
and a script that would search "this database only" for DOB, Names that kinda stuff
and it should be able to be accessed for updating, deleting, changing info, ect. by myself, and by the poster.
I would also like a link to you for help put on the page since you are the righter and credit to you for the script
Just tell me what you need to know if you can help thanks again
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The good news is that the task you want to perform is a pretty straight-forward and common one. I think you're after ...
- An HTML 'submit my data' form
- A 'write the submitted data to a database' script/routine
- An HTML 'search the data' form
- A 'search for the submitted item and display the results' script/routine
The bad news is that this will involve a degree of work. You won't be able to simply 'plug a script in' to your site - you'll need to investigate what databases / languages are available on your server, design a database that's relevant to your needs, and at the very least do some customisation to a pre-written script to enable it to run. There *are* many scripts around that perform the basic functions listed above, but somebody will still have to get their hands dirty writing HTML, connecting to the right DB etc.
It's *possible* you'll find a volunteer here (and generally, they'd reply to this question rather than emailing you), but failing that, I'd suggest you find some basic perl/database tutorials...here in the Monastery or elsewhere - there's bound to be enough well-explained example code around to let you paste together something that'll suit you. Cheers,
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