Diary updates - very quick question

[dbaseboy]

Hi,

Im setting up a basic webpage for a client and want to be able to let them update their own very basic diary, which would be displayed within an HTML page. Im happy for new entries to just overwrite old ones as there wouldnt be any need for searching etc, once the dates passed its finished with. There would only be two 'fields' date and location.

Does this have to be done with a database or is there a way I can provide this via a simple form and the likes of Javascript? or allow the user to put the data in a text file and have that written to the page?

Cheers folks.

 

[BabyJeffy]

You would have to use a simple form regardless of the solution (should you want to offer the client the ability to update information).

You could either read/write to a database or to a text file. This would require some server-side scripting... unless you were offering this solution as a local one (running on the client's desktop) and they were happy with using IE for windows only - in which case you could use activeX controls to do this client-side using javascript.

If you went for a server-side solution (the solution was not destined for a single desktop running locally) then you can access either a database or a text file (that you can read/write to).

Cheers,
Jeff

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[dbaseboy]

cheers Jeff.

I'll start looking at installing a basic MySQL database then.

 

[BabyJeffy]

Good call

Jeff

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