I have a database with a million zillion names (well not that many, but let's pretend), and I want to put them all in a scroll box as links. That sounds easy enough, but this is where I don't have an idea on how to start putting it together.

I want to use the person's name as a key, and have that make a special link where, when pressed, it will open a small window containing the rest of the data. How could I go about making the script link to itself to read specific database items in a new window?

For example:
Aaron Anderson => The webmaster, blah blah
Someone Else => Don't know
Fred => Flintstone!

I want the names to be linking to the rest of the data in a new window.

I appreciate any ideas you have on this, I am stumped.



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In reply to How to put links in a scroll box? by sulfericacid

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