Driving a browser from a database.

[lenny]

Hi guys,

I hope this is the correct area for my post...

I want to feed a web browser (IE) from an existing MS Access Database. To allow searhing, reading and adding of entries via a web browser.

Is this possible.

My alternative is to create a new system which will allow users to input data via the web browser.

Plus I'd like them to be able to archive images to a separate area which at some point would have thumnails available for quick scanning to locate diagrams.

I'm new to this type of thing, so any advice would be appreciated..

Thanks

Lenny

[ronaldb66]

Server side scripting is what you are looking for. If you want to use MSAccess for the back end, I'd suspect ASP would be the better choice; I couldn't tell how well other languages like PHP communicate with it.
You're probably looking for a content management system; do however give WikiWikiWeb (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb) some thought; it might be close to what you're looking for.

Anyhow, I think this thread is more appropriate for one of the server side forums.

[lenny]

Cheers Ronald,

I actually want to deploy the first instance on my company intranet so I may have issues getting access to the web server for server-side stuff. The Access database which I'm currently looking at is on a shared drive on the network.

But I actually want this same functionality for web-based applications on a site I'm developing.

Thanks for your feedback.

Andy