my database hell

[mr_anderson187]

ok guys,
got another problem,
yeah, i know, im full of problems

this 1s a bitch

im doin my as project for school coursewoork, and to get those extra nerdy marks im goin for anothert online form thing, but its being gay well ga
im doing trhis second site for my coursework with brinkster (www.brinkster.com)

ive tried like 100's of diferent ways to do this
the actual online form and database thing in frontpage wont work, other premade scripts wont work, so ive decided to go for the casic thing, open up a new page stick in 3 fileds and 3 one line text boxes and try that
i went to the html view and it says it will save it to a file called form_resiulsts .csv so i save the webpage
upload both the form webpage and its csv counterpart, but it wont work, does anyone know why? can ne1 help me with this or do i need to provide more infoi?

please help
richard evans

[Shad]

I have never done what you are trying to do using soley Access or Frontpage (or anything else) and can only suggest you think about creating a database in Access then writing a few web pages which 'connect' to the database and do whatever you need to do. You will probably get better marks by doing this as it shows a slightly higher level of knowledge and understanding.

Any questions...?

[mr_anderson187]

yeah i done that, but with brinkster it doesnt allow the grontpage extenbsions, and wont let me upload the fiels i need ot do that, i got it to work, byt simply just uploading the forsmrslt.txt file and ther form webpage, butit doesnt save the data to the file? ne1 no how to remedy this?

[Shad]

Frontpage extensions need to be installed by the server administrator. It might be an option, have a hunt around the control panel or support desk.

Personally I wouldn't recomment using Frontpage at all but seeing as you've nearly got it going...

[mr_anderson187]

nearly, uhh

ok then wot wood be ure recomendation
ure using brinkster, and u neeed a form that can just get theyre name there email adress and theyre comment, and u can use frontoage or dreamweaver,
wot would you do?

[Shad]

I'd open a database connection, read the form data, store it in the database and then display the results. Maybe include a list page of the entries too

[Spunkey]

amen brother!

theres some excellent support on brinkster, heres an article from their knowledge base on how to connect to an Access database -
http://www.brinkster.com/Kb/Kb.asp?kb=53890

HTH