Hey, I would like just a little bit of help

[DJones_Wales]

I'm an absolute amateur when it comes to programming, and I was wondering if anyone has any decent links to tutorials or any other relevant information when inserting coding into html that allows files to be uploaded into a database, so that the database can then be searched and data be retrieved to be displayed in a table.
I think a preferred language would be VB, as I've very much familiarised myself with it in school, but JS or something similar or easier would also be appreciated.
At the moment I am comfortable with the PSEUDO coding for searching through the database and retrieving the data, as well as collecting the data from a form ready to upload, but I'm missing the middle piece of my puzzle.
Thanks for the time!

[JamieR]

Welcome Welcome :)

Well there are loads of different tutorials around really. http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html is a Visual Basic tutorial I got straight of Google :p

What language do you know bits of at the moment? Stuff like PHP and C++ are linked in one way or another. I don't know much Visual Basic, however I am told it is a easy language to grasp and program in.

In terms of Javascript, there are loads of tutorials around - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=javascript+tutorials. Best thing to do is to have a hunt through several and familiarize yourself with Javascript's basic syntax, functions etc.

[DJones_Wales]

Thanks for the links.
I think I'll buy a book on JS, I've been wanting one for quite some time now. (My Dad bought me a Java book accidentally last year!). Can you recommend a book?
And yes VB is a very easy language to get the grasp of. The drop down boxes of available functions to use with each object makes it a very user-friendly language, a lot easier than Pascal, which we just had to remember off the top of our heads!

[JamieR]

I've never been that interested in JS personally - client side development I stop at XHTML and CSS ;)

I don't know any specific JS books, however this (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596000480/002-9273521-8856068?v=glance) one looks quite interesting.

I don't know much Visual Basic but I am planning to learn more as I got a feeling we will be doing it in school for sixth form - and previous knowledge of it goes a long way :D

Jamie.

[DJones_Wales]

Yeh, VB is part of 6th form. You gotta do databases and stuff like that, it's actually very fun to do. I kept on adding more and more functions that weren't necessary (Login screen, help screen, view entire database screen etc.). There's really nothing to fear! :D

[JamieR]

messing around with code is all part of learning :D - something which I'm not afraid of doing ;)

[mlseim]

Are you talking about doing all this on your own server (on your own PC)?

If you mean doing the upload and database over the internet from any PC,
you can't use Javascripting. JS is a client-side language only. You need
to use a server-side language such as PHP or Perl. Possibly looking into
something like PHP/MySQL. It all depends on how much data, how secure
it needs to be, and how many times it will be accessed.

[DJones_Wales]

I'll give PHP a good look at, thanks!

[Crake]

good job weazels link wasnt teaching people how to do website design :p

[JamieR]

good job weazels link wasnt teaching people how to do website design :p

huh? :confused:
I gave a link to a Javascript book :|

[Crake]

oh yeeee

oops my mistake!