Database help/advice

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.

Thanks,



Dan

Daniel B. Swartz, Ph.D., CI, CT
Executive Director
Professional Interpreter Exchange, Inc.
"Premier Providers of Sign & Spoken Language Interpreters"
9101 Cherry Lane, Suite 104
Laurel, MD 20708-1150 USA

301-725-3402
301-725-3404 TTY
301-725-3412 FAX

danswartz(at)pieinc.com
www.pieinc.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Peel" <heather(at)thenetnow.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 9:42 PM
Subject: Any database experts out there?


> Happy New Year everyone,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone could help with this question.  This fall we built
a
> site using www.e-classifieds.net classified ads software.  The client had
an
> extremely limited budget and so we suggested using this script which we
> modified for her.  While the e-classifieds.net company offers many
different
> scripts at varying prices, this was all the client could afford at the
time
> and she felt it would be sufficient.  We did tell her of the limitations
> before we started, but we were asked to go ahead with it.  The site went
up
> Oct. 1 and she's already had over 1200 members register.  This is many
more
> than she had anticipated and of course now we are all worried about the
> database and how long this 'cheaper' version will last before it starts to
> really crawl.  The e-classifieds website says it should hold between 5000
> and 12000 ads depending on the server setup.
>
> If anyone is familiar with this particular script (it's the 'photo'
edition)
> or could offer any other advice, I'd very much appreciate hearing from
you.
> The data is all in one file which is currently at about 800K in size.  The
> site is at http://meetme.org if anyone would care to look.
>
> One thing I'm wondering about is splitting up the site into more than one
> database. (one for men, one for women).  I think this would be a pain, but
> do-able.  Each would still be a flat file database and only searchable
from
> within it, but it might help.
>
> Does anyone have any great ideas?  P.S.  The client also wants out of it
> already.   I guess it's too much upkeep to have to preview every ad
> (although they don't really need to be previewed.)  I think she is
concerned
> about being able to sell it given that we can't give her any answers on
how
> long the database will hold.
>
> Once again, I'd really appreciate any help or advice ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Heather
>
>
>

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