From: dcraig@rain.org Subject: Re: What is the best package for creating a web enabled database? Date: 2000/07/02 Message-ID: #1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@rain.org X-Trace: news.rain.org 962584953 28804 198.68.144.148 (3 Jul 2000 00:42:33 GMT) Organization: RAIN (Regional Alliance for Information Networking) Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: dcraig@rain.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jul 2000 00:42:33 GMT Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-access,comp.databases.theory On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:09:33 -0700, "Steve Jorgensen" wrote: >It sounds like you should just write a VB program that uploads data to an >FTP site, then have an Access program read, then delete any new files in the >FTP directory every so often. > >D wrote in message ... >>Hi, >> >>I would like to create a PC based program that allows a person to record >>details about themselves and save it as a file on their PC or to a floppy >>disk, e.g. Name, Address, etc. As well as perhaps a picture of themselves. >> Or you could learn how to parse form data with a cgi program and have them submit the data via a web page. From there you could do whatever you want with it, get it via email or have it go directly into the database. This would require some work to sort out and plan ahead of time on your part but the ultimate solution could be quite simple and low maintenance (unless done poorly, of course) If you're stuck with Access as the back end you should be able to do something similar with asp and NT. hth; DCraig.