[AccessD] Web Project

Karen this depends on how familiar you are with Linux.

To have to learn Linux/Apache from scratch is similar to climbing 3000
vertical feet with two pack-sacks and if a client is involved; especially if
you already have a good understanding of Windows2000/IIS. On the other hand,
it is good to learn both sets but it will take time to be proficient and
MySQL and PHP can run as easily on both plaforms.

My two cents worth.
Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Karen
Rosenstiel
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 6:53 AM
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Mark, thanks for your response.

I've found another way to do this. I found a program called Search Maker
Pro, which is a web search tool. It creates the JavaScript to search a web
site or, in this case, a single page. I am fine-tuning it, but I think it
will serve very well. You are correct that this is a flat file; essentially
just three different names for the same person.

Certainly less flexible than a database, but I haven't yet worked out in my
head whether to go with a Win2K server with Access and ASP, or a Red Hat
Linux server with MySQL and PHP. This is going to be a site with a lot of
text content and would be nice to be able to just swap it in and out of
templates.

But I have to learn this stuff first. I have been struggling with Linux.

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA
karenr7 at oz dot net (Spam blocker -- resolve into a real email address)
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mitsules, Mark S.
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Karen,

Just for arguments sake, how long is "very long"?  Although I'm always up
for bells and whistles when it comes to applications, sometimes a
de-normalized flat file table will suffice.  This approach allows a user
with no prior experience to learn by browsing the data without having to
know a starting name or its correct spelling.  A bonus is that text only
pages load significantly faster.  I'm assuming that the data you describe is
fairly static;)  Therefore, you could provide the user three pages all
containing the same data, but each sorted alphabetically by a different
column.


Mark


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From: Karen Rosenstiel [mailto:karenr7 at oz.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 7:22 PM
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Subject: [AccessD] Web Project


Hi gang,
I have a web project I am working on and would like your suggestions about
how to do a part of it.

I have a very long list of the Wade-Giles, Pinyin (both Chinese
transliterations into a European alphabet) and Romaji (ditto Japanese)
versions of Chinese and Japanese names in parallel columns. These are the
names of old Zen masters from the last 1,800 or so years. Different books
transliterate the names in different ways base on the above systems. This is
very confusing for the average person who is not a language scholar to
follow.

How would you go about setting up a little web search tool so that the user
could input a name and get the other variations?

TIA

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA
karenr7 at oz dot net (Spam blocker -- resolve into a real email address)

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