Re: web database
From: Gordon Hamm <vds_at_astoria.com>
Date: 1997/07/02
Message-ID: <01bc871b$c25294f0$0889bece_at_gordys>#1/1
Date: 1997/07/02
Message-ID: <01bc871b$c25294f0$0889bece_at_gordys>#1/1
I vote for ISAPI. I create dlls that kick butt, and use the Foxpro databases. Here is a play site I just wrote in ISAPI....
Http://www.astoria.com/isapi-bin/vds/ads.dll
-- Gordon Hamm Voice Data Systems Inc. Astoria Communications 360-686-8315 Zainal Abidin Shariff Ghazali <erotomania_at_sunot.net> wrote in article <33B286AF.3057_at_sunot.net>...Received on Wed Jul 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST
> manolis_at_cytanet.com.cy wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> > i am trying to desing a database for a cd shop that will be used on a
> > webserver so that surfers can browse and search the cd titles
> > I have adequate knowledge of windows and UNIX programming.
> >
> > any one to give ideas where to start from?
> >
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> You have two main options to start with.
>
> 1. Writing CGI scripts to access the dbase from the web. This could be
> done through several scripting languages such as Perl, Java, VB, etc.
>
> or
>
> 2. For ODBC databases, you could use ASP (Active Server Page) but must
> be viewed on IE only (no Netscape) or incorporate ActiveX Controls. Or
> you could Java to get connected to a database from the web (but then you
> will have to spent a great amount of time understanding JDBC (Java
> Database Connectivity).
>
> Zainal
> Systems Trainee
>