Hey guys
I came across something I need to do for this website I am working on and I'm not sure how to do and was wondering if you have any suggestions on how to do it.
I need to make a searchable database. Its a kind of online phone directory of all the people at my school. I want it so people can type in the peoples name and it brings up all their info including phone number, address, and e-mail.

Any ideas??
Thank you very much.
Spanxz

Well... If this is a relatively small database you could make a text file and put in the information and rename the file whatever.cgi so if people try to open it, it wont work. For example the setup could be this:
First Last|Number|About them and then next line.If you were to do this I would recommend Perl/CGI for the job of searching it.. should make it pretty easy. hope that helps.

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[ This Message was edited by: AcidBurn on 2002-02-23 21:06 ]

I would recommend using MySQL and PHP.
There are plenty of tuts for PHP/MySQL too.
If you need any help just ask.

I'd also go with PHP/MySQL, cuz you can make a search engine with just one query string to MySQL
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p-h-p-p-h-p-p-h-p-p-h-p

thats my opinion. you can do it w/o mysql. but use php for that plz....




nonama finds php bets web programing lang in the world...

a-s-p-a-s-p-a-s-p

ASP was created with SQL and Databases in mind.

so what? some children are created with their parents having lawyers in mind, but the become drug addicts hanging around in subway stations
ok, i know this is a strnage comparision, but seriously, in what way would asp be better than php?

I admit it. I'm a VB fanatic.

erm... fsvara: are you sure this is going ok? I thik we'll have a flamewar about this if we aren't careful
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asp is shit. not language. it just makes other langs server side.

asp lollipops

heh... do you want to actually start a flamewar?
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Function FLAME() {

I thought asp was just php for VB programmers

}

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hehe, I like that function, but it won't work in any language I know
maybe make it in PHP next time
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[ This Message was edited by: dxprog on 2002-03-02 11:39 ]

Well.. since C++ is better than VB just change the 'Function' to 'void'. Then all will be good

void FLAME()
{
printf("I thought asp was just php for VB programmers\n");
}

better?
it's C tho... but who cares
wanna have a C++ version? no problem:

void FLAME()
{
cout
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lol
It was not meant to bein any language, not meant to work, just be recognisable the the human eye, which it is to most programmers, thats all
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I started programming in VB, and I like it, but I use PHP most of the time.

I've done VBA some times, but now I'll let my fingers off it
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