Re: Searching and copying within a page?

by Rebecca "J." Walter <rjp(at)mail.tele.dk>

 Date:  10 May 2001 20:45:52 +0200
 To:  Andrej Kostresevic <temporalassassin(at)yahoo.com>
 Cc:  bobcornelissen(at)hetnet.nl, hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
 References:  yahoo
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> Ithink the most affordable solution would be asp / access . (no investment
> for the backend, affordable hosting with asp support)
> Hope this helps,
> Andrej

no. the most affordable is php mysql or php postgres because theyre
FREE.


> 
> --- bobcornelissen(at)hetnet.nl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am looking for a solution for a project I am working on, maybe some of
> > you can point me into the right direction here.
> > 
> > On a website on our own server there is a webpage with a very long
> > table. I want to put up a search form near the top of the page where
> > people can fill in the word they are looking for. I need some kind of
> > script that searches through that same page for the word and somehow
> > copy the table row <tr> word </tr> surrounding that word and paste that
> > <TR> either to another page into an empty table or on the same page
> > somewhere.
> > 
> > I have done many searches on searching :-) but I only come up with
> > search engines that give a link to a page it has found the word on.. and
> > I am already on that page... 
> > 
> > Due to the changing table I can not put bookmarks everywhere in order to
> > try to jump to the place it finds the word. Also there are mostly more
> > rows where that word occurs, so I need the script to copy possibly a
> > number of rows and "write" them to another table on that page or on the
> > next page.
> > 
> > I would think this could be done with some JavaScript or at most a CGI
> > script, but I am not strong enough in those languages to create one all
> > by myself. By the way, I do have access to the server so CGI is OK.
> > 
> > Does anybody know of an existing script that can do this or is it easy
> > to make something like this? Please respond to my personal e-mail
> > bobcornelissen(at)hetnet.nl
> > 
> > I appreciate your help,
> > Bob Cornelissen
> > bobcornelissen(at)hetnet.nl
> 
> 
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