Access file in HTML page

[Greenleaf]

Hello, I have an HTML page with a table. I have to fill the table with data existing in an Access file, how can I do that?

 

[RISTMO]

You will need to use a server side language. ASP would probably work best to get info from an Access file.

http://www.asp.net

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[Greenleaf]

Thank you Rick. But what if I have to use the page in a CD context and not on the net?

 

[RISTMO]

Maybe someone else should confirm this, as I use PHP+MySQL (for online work only), not Access, but I don't think that it's possible. One way that might be possible is if you had a Delphi or C++ program on the cd that could parse the results and send them to the webpage, but that's not my area of scripting, so I'm not even sure if that's possible.

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[ChrisHunt]

If you're talking about fetching some data dynamically from an Access database whenever somebody looks at that web page, you'd normally use some kind of server-side scripting approach - which is isn't possible on a CD.

I don't think you can do this from the browser using Javascript, but I'm not a Javascript expert. It probably could be done in Java. Either way you'll probably get pop-up warnings to the user that a web page is trying to read information from their computer.

If, on the other hand, you have some fixed data sitting around in an access database that you want to publish on an HTML page you can do that in Access itself. Access 97 has a "Save as HTML" option in the File menu, if your version doesn't have this you should look for HTML in the Save As/Export options in the same menu. -- Chris Hunt
Extra Connections Ltd

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[Greenleaf]

Now somebody told me that this can be done with a Java applet. Sounds reasonable?

 

[RISTMO]

I think that it probably can be done. Search Google for "Java Access" for tutorials.

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