Questions about CGI Databases

[Darin]

Hello,

I'm currently working on a site and I need possibly a CGI database to do the following. Allow people to search for companies by either the first letter (alphabet), or by what products they offer. Also, organize the companies by their first letter or again, the products they offer. Is there any way this can be done through forms on the web, which write to a .txt file, which is then called by with a SSI command?

If there is anybody who can help me, please do. I'm looking for a database where I can add companies and allow people to search for them by their first letter or the products they offer. Thanks in advance!

[YUPAPA]

Database doctor!!!

[Darin]

Originally posted by YUPAPA
Database doctor!!!

Uhmm...some more help on that would be appreciated. :rolleyes:

[LastActionHero]

:rolleyes: Can't you search?

http://www.web-bazaar.com/cgi/db_doctor.html

[Ted S]

<rant>I wish people would understand that when people post here its for help not to be told to go do a web searhc. If you don't want to help, don't respond</rant>


Anyways.. I assume you're looking for something like www.scubadirectory.com where a company inputs data and people search that data. If you plan to run a hgih volume or large databse, think about mysql or another powerful database as txt files are not that good.

Making a script that does not this is not too hard at all. You can easily read a tutorial and make a script that writes data to a file and then searches it. If you dont know any perl or php or simialr check out hotscripts.com which has a lot of good free scripts that will be similar to what you want but not the same.

If you have any more specific questions about coding or a script you find, please respond here.

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by Ted Sindzinski
<rant>I wish people would understand that when people post here its for help not to be told to go do a web searhc. If you don't want to help, don't respond</rant>


Well if you look at the post above somebody has already told him about database doctor. Even I didn't know what database doctor was before that post. But I did a simple search for database doctor on google and came up with that URL. I think a person can atleast make that effort. And I did post the URL.

[Darin]

Thank Ted, and lastactionhere, I was not looking for search results. I found quite a lot of free db's out there, but I wanted something which allows me to input my data through forms on the net. Thanks for your help Ted! :)

[Darin]

Database Docotr seems the best so far. I bought a license and payed for installation. I'm waiting for my hosting account at DataPacket.net to get activated and will get it up and running as soon as everything is installed. Thanks guys, by the way, has anybody here used it before?

[YUPAPA]

YUPAPA mentioned Database Doctor!
So you should say Thank you to him! :D

[Darin]

Yeah thanks, but now my dad wants a mySQL database, so we're stuck with Database Doctor. It may become useful for other purposes though. I'll have to look around for mySQL db's now... Thanks YUPAPA. :)