Drop down menus and database

[Junkyard Engineer]

I have a prospective customer who has 5 or 6 products and many dimensions
and paramters per product. The actual website shows a zillion of tables with
prices. I was hoping to switch him with several drop down menus to make the
choice of parameters and then display only the product he is asking for with
a picture and a price. Since I'm only working with FP03 and that I don't
know a thing about php and other programming languages, I was wondering if
it's possible to do it in FP03 and MSAccess. If so, where can I see a
tutorial on it.

tia

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage]]

Hi Junkyard Engineer:
This may help with the dropdown lists:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/tutorials/doubledropdown.htm
This may help with displaying the product asked for:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/tutorials/picklist_with_dropdown.htm

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

There is no tutorial, most server-side coding is custom created specifically for the project.
However if you plan to use Access, then the site must be hosted on a Windows IIS web server with
ASP, ASP.net, and Access support.

You might consider hiring someone to do this part of the project, because you will most likely run
into limitations trying to work only with the FP database components.

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[Junkyard Engineer]

Thanks Kathleen, that's exactly what I was looking for. Nice informative
site btw.

Yes thomas, I thought of hiring somebody for that part. It's just that I
want to give it a shot, more for the learning than to make a living out of
it.