RE: Database help/advice

We use ColdFusion to this kind of work. It's advantage over ASP is that
ColdFusion is much easier to learn, and applications require less code
overall. It's also less expensive. The commands necessary to "dump"
information into your database are CFUPDATE and CFINSERT. You can do a
keyword search in Allaire's help docs, or use one of Ben Forta's ColdFusion
books for a step-by-step guide.

Keith Purtell, Web Designer
  Member, HTML Writers Guild
VantageMed Corporation
"Integrated Solutions
 For Healthcare"

> -----Original Message-----
> >From: "Daniel B. Swartz, Ph.D., CI, CT" <danswartz(at)pieinc.com>
> >To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> >Subject: Database help/advice
> >Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:47:18 -0600
> >
> >Hello Everyone,
> >
> >I would like to learn how to adapt a form so that it dumps
> information
> >collected into a database (Access).
> >
> >The form, with no script written for handling, and is not
> "submit ready,"
> >can be found at http://www.pieinc.com/registration.htm
> >
> >I have already designed the form and the database.  I just
> need to know how
> >to make the "dump" happen.  It is not so much a thing where
> I need browsers
> >to have access to this database - I just want the form to dump the
> >registration information to the database so that I can access it.
> >
> >I use FP2000 pretty much - I am kind of html "stupid."
> >
> >The site that I am putting the form on uses CGI and Cold
> Fusion, if that
> >helps.
> >
> >A fellow did a form like this a couple of years ago that was
> really neat.
> >It took the data collected and put it on a resident database
> on my site.
> >Then I would just go to this webpage he set up and I could
> download the
> >database to my desktop from there - it was great.
> >
> >Now if I just learn how to do this myself...
> >
> >Help, anyone?  Also have limited budget to have someone else
> do this work.
> >

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