Creating Dynamic Link Request Pages...

[cdogstu99]

Anyone know how to create something like this:

http://www.boston-online.com/links/

I'm guessing ASP with Database, but not sure..also maybe if anyone knows of some sort of automated script that will do something like this...thanks!

 

[Sheco]

You'd want a pair database tables... one for holding the catagory description and a catagory ID number... the second one for the http link, catagory ID number, and maybe a short description of the page.

You could do it all with one table if you are really careful to make sure links in the same catagory always have exactly the same words... I think it would be easier with 2 tables.

 

[DotNetGnat]

ok thats a lot of stuff on that page...

lets break down into something like this:

1. Various forms which will help users to edit/add/email/search the stuff etc on the site

this can be easily implemented with html forms and processing these forms using asp script that talks to the database in the back end...and i would agree with Sheco that creating 2 tables will make your life easy...

for creating forms and learning some stuff please try these below links...

http://www.codefixer.com/tutorials/form_to_database.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/asp

http://www.haneng.com/lessons_21.asp

some of these forms require email scripts...try these links for learning more on sending emails using asp...

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp

http://www.powerasp.com/content/new/sending_email_cdosys.asp

and you might also need a login script...try this link..

http://www.aspin.com/home/tutorial/usermanage/login

http://www.asp101.com/samples/login.asp

2. coming to the database part...you need tables like...the below is just a simplfied example but will definitely give you some idea and a starting point...

TableName-Users
fields- UserID,UserLogin,UserPass
TableName-Category
fields - CategoryID, CategoryName
TableName- Links
fields- LinkID, CatID, LinkName, LinkUrl,LinkDesc

ok i will stop writing now...your question is not the one which can be answered in a single post...

i would suggest you to starting building the application which will then give me more ideas...

please post back if you need any more info...

-DNG