Interactive Table, Storing Data

[Nepheligenous]

Hi everyone,
I'm a maintenance technician and I have to keep track of hundreds of parts for the machines I work on. I have 4 cabinets that can hold around 125 plastic bins in which the parts are stored. I created a table in HTML using overLib (available at

http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/)

so that when you float the mouse pointer over each cell of the table (each cell being representitive of a storage bin), a popup appears that shows the part number and part description.
What I would like to do next is make it interactive, so if I click in the cell a sort of form could appear and I can either decrease the number or increase that number according to whether I remove parts or replenish parts.
Can I do this with Javascipt? If not, then which language (that can be embedded in HTML) can I use?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Vic

 

[trollacious]

Your best bet is to do this with server-side scripting. That will allow you to write from a data file (database or just plain text file) and read from it to populate the table when you view the page.

Lee

 

[jemminger]

technically yes you *could* do it in javascript, but then you need some way to persist your data lest it reset every time you close the browser.

an IE-only solution could be to use an xml or flat file for data storage, and vbscript to write to it.

another way would be to use a server-side solution: a database like mysql (free) or other, and a server-side language like php (free) or other.


-jeff

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