Re: Help! Need web page updates without CGI access to database

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Mike Lane <mlane_at_suffolk.lib.ny.us> wrote in article <33d0d67e.911134_at_news.li.net>...
> Hello:
>
> I work for a college in NY and we are attempting to improve the
> ability of students to access our updated schedules. Obviously the
> best way to do this would be to provide CGI access through a web page
> to the schedule database in real time. Unfortunately this is not an
> option right now as the programmers are tied up on other projects for
> the foreseeable future.
>
> Here is what I can (and do) get right now:
>
> 1) A periodic download of the schedule in ascii text format
>
> 2) Access to the directory on the Risc that holds the schedule.
>
>
> What I have done is basically take the raw ascii output and manually
> reformat it and manually insert all the tags and links. What I want
> to do is figure out a way to automate this process so that I may take
> the ascii download and have a process that almost totally automates
> the process of reformatting, inserting tags and links, and posting to
> the web page. It also important that I be able to use a program that
> will do something like recognize the word Accounting in a certain
> context and auto insert a link to the page describing the accounting
> program.
>
> Once I have automated this as much as possible I can at least up the
> frequency of updates to once daily. I am willing to buy any software
> I need and have maybe 50 hours to work with (5 hours a week, ten
> weeks). If anyone has done anything similar to this (maybe with
> Access or Oracle) or has any ideas as to the best way to proceed I
> would sure appreciate your input. Please email me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
Received on Tue Jul 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT