Is it possible to use FP2003 to find an id # a customer enters and then
display information about it? (www.ibcinc.com as an example). Or, do I need
to know JavaScript to do this? I want a customer to be able to enter an id #
and then show them a status of their shipment. Thanks much.

You will need to use a database and server-side scripting, such as ASP, PHP, etc. to store this
info, so that your customer can then look up the info..

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"kat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to use FP2003 to find an id # a customer enters and then
> display information about it? (www.ibcinc.com as an example). Or, do I need
> to know JavaScript to do this? I want a customer to be able to enter an id #
> and then show them a status of their shipment. Thanks much.

"kat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:EEA4E95D-FECE-4BF5-99C3-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Is it possible to use FP2003 to find an id # a customer enters and then
> display information about it? (www.ibcinc.com as an example). Or, do I
> need
> to know JavaScript to do this? I want a customer to be able to enter an
> id #
> and then show them a status of their shipment. Thanks much.

You probably need to know more than Javascript - more like database
manipulation and ASP programming. FP can provide a basic way of doing
this - read up on the database interface wizard and database results wizard
in "Help".

Depending on your server systems i.e. Unix or Windows various server side
scripting solutions exist.

I use this one frequently www.ezscripting.com

It has a basic and advanced suite of scripts that use normal text files to
store data ("flat-text" files or CSV files).
This may or may not suit you.

Or as I've already suggested try the wizards within frontpage. (they use
ASP code and MS Access Databases FP can create the DB for you - you don't
*really* need Access unless you want to add more tables to the DB and so on.

Else try www.hotscripts.com - a range of scripts across the popular
server-side languages - php, perl, asp, aspx,.net (sharepoint) etc.