Re: Searching and copying within a page?

I think you can do it with xml,but i would agree that you really should use
some database integration.
IMO php/mysql is great.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrej Kostresevic" <temporalassassin(at)yahoo.com>
To: <bobcornelissen(at)hetnet.nl>; <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Searching and copying within a page?


> Bob,
> I personally think you are on the wrong track here. While it *might* be
> possible to do what you describe here(although I highly doubt it), it
> would not be a very elegant solution.
> Why dont you store this information in an access database, and pull it out
> of there using asp. (or the scripting language of your preference.
> Any combination would work here:
> php/mySQL
> asp/Access
> asp/SQL Server
> asp/oracle
> jsp/access
> jsp/oracle
> Ithink the most affordable solution would be asp / access . (no investment
> for the backend, affordable hosting with asp support)
> Hope this helps,
> Andrej
>
> --- 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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