Database on webpages

[tubago]

Is there any way to link a MS access database with a web page. i.e. I create a template of a page and when a click on link named for example "A" it would fill the template i created with all the informations about "A" contained in the database. The same for "B", "C"...

[Greg]

Yes, I think ya use IIS and ASP.

[tubago]

Can you give me instructions, please. I'm a noob with web pages construction. Prefeably for MS FP 2003.
Thanks in advance

[Greg]

I don't use MS products for the web, I can't help. Sorry.

But maybe someone here can help. I dunno.

[tubago]

And about other programs? I also have the macromedia dreamwaver

[Greg]

And about other programs? I also have the macromedia dreamwaver

That can be helpful, but you need server side code too. Like ASP in your case.

[tubago]

i don't need that to a website.
I only need that to create a navigation menu in a dvd with applications. There will be more than 500 applications and i don't want to create 500 html pages.

[Greg]

HTML is run on the vistitors computer. You database lives on your server.

The HTML talks to the server side code to get the whatever over to the HTML.

If you have data stored in a DB on a server, you need code in the server to fetch it. The HTML links will contain the necessary info for what to fetch.

Plus, you need login sessions, securtiy, if you intend to only give this stuff to certain people.

If those things are not isssues for you, extract the stuuf you want to give out from the DB, store it on the web site in public and just link to it.

[tubago]

you didn't understand me. what i want to do is a autorun menu for my cd, based on webpages created by me. In other words. Each application would have a page with a brief descrption, size, screenshot, etc. But i didn't want to create mannualy these pages. Making a database on MS Access and then using a template, the page would load with the data of each application. This would save me many hours. The only problem is that i don't know how to do this.

[Greg]

Oh damn, I got ya now. A CD is local and the browser opens an html page with an index to each app's html page?

I don't know how to do that, yet.

[tubago]

Ok. If you know something else, just say.
I was planning to divide the apps into games, internet, updates, hardware, tools, etc.
Inside eachs of these pages(games, updates, tools...) i would have the list with the appropraite apps, and then that's when the asp starts working. When i click on a app to open the page with the description, size, etc, i wnate the asp page to get those informations from a databse created in MS access or excel

[Greg]

It may be easier then that. Maybe .net?

I dunno.

[tubago]

Sorry. What do you mean that it can be easier?

[Greg]

I said maybe. I dunno. I was putting that out there in case a .net or windows desktop programmer saw it and maybe made a suggestion.

I don't code stuff like that, so I'll be of no help.

[tubago]

ok Thanks anyway. If anyone knows something please say something

[lmnobs]

Here is a link that will show you how to do most of what you want to do with in excell or MS /asp as nopid sugested also your webhost should have some Templates for you to use . Google found this as well as hundreds of others. Your question is a tough one to get an exact Free answer but this should help you along your way
http://asp.net/Modules/MoreArticles.aspx?tabindex=0&mid=64

[tubago]

Here is a link that will show you how to do most of what you want to do with in excell or MS /asp as nopid sugested also your webhost should have some Templates for you to use . Google found this as well as hundreds of others. Your question is a tough one to get an exact Free answer but this should help you along your way
http://asp.net/Modules/MoreArticles.aspx?tabindex=0&mid=64

Thanks. I bookmarked the site to read it later.