Re: Web pages from a database

You could use Active Service Pages, if your web host supports it.
You can buy (or tryout) Macromedia's UltraDev which is a tool to help write 
dynamic databases in either ASP, Cold Fusion, or JSP (Java Server Pages).
http://www.macromedia.com/software/ultradev/
and specifically for Access
http://www.macromedia.com/software/ultradev/resources/access/

HTH

At 03:16 AM 01/25/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>>From: "Andrew Armstrong" <andrew(at)wisca.co.uk>
>>Reply-To: "Andrew Armstrong" <andrew(at)wisca.co.uk>
>>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>>Subject: Web pages from a database
>>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:54:57 -0000
>>
>>I have been asked to tender for a job where some pages are to be generated
>>from information held in an Access database. I don't have any choice about
>>the database - it will simply hold information about museums - opening
>>times, address, contact details and so on.
>>
>>The plan is that every time that the database is updated, someone can carry
>>out a siomple procedure to generate new copies of the information pages for
>>the specific museums.
>>
>>Has anyone any ideas? I have limited database experience, and am just
>>starting to learn Visual Basic. My guess is that I need to make a template,
>>then to write a Visual Basic program to query the database and place
>>information in the template at the appropriate point.  In order to do this I
>>would clearly have to learn some more stuff, so if it isn't the best
>>approach I don't want to waste too much time.
>>
>>If I do need to learn more about databases and Visual Basic, I would
>>appreciate any pointers as to what to concentrate on first so I don't spend
>>a long time floundering around.
>>
>>Andy
>>
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