bgreenhouse
Technical User
Hi Everyone
Okay - I don't know how to do this, but I have a good idea, and I wanted it to run it by some of the thinkers out there.
I'm quoting on making a fairly straightforward website for a client. It's just an appendix of veterinary diseases that will go on their websites. That's pretty straightforward - I'd just do an ASP template for a given disease that draws all its data out of some database in the backend and displays it. Then I just have to make the search page and the navigation.
Then they asked if I could also put it on CD...Of course this is a problem as it gets away from the server client model.
So - I thought that perhaps I could encapsulate all of my logic in .dlls that takes arguments from the search page and output an HTML page. On the web site I could use ASP to accept data from forms and pass them to the dlls, and on the CD I could use something else (got to figure that one out). The CD version could be built as an HTA (HTML Application) so that all the formatting and graphics remain the same.
I need to know if there's any problems logically here. The client has put out lots of static sites on CD and wants it in a browser based format (so no VB programs or anything). Can I pass data from an HTML form to a dll? I think you can do something similar in perl (thakns to a friend's recommendation), but I'm much more familiar with VB...Any brilliant ideas?
Oh yeah, to get around the database server problem on the cd, I thought I might do the whole thing (web and cd) from an XML data source. You can do a fair amount with JavaScript or VBScript and an XML dso...I could also just use XSLT to output each disease page rather than an ASP template...thinking out loud...Any contributors/comments?
B
Okay - I don't know how to do this, but I have a good idea, and I wanted it to run it by some of the thinkers out there.
I'm quoting on making a fairly straightforward website for a client. It's just an appendix of veterinary diseases that will go on their websites. That's pretty straightforward - I'd just do an ASP template for a given disease that draws all its data out of some database in the backend and displays it. Then I just have to make the search page and the navigation.
Then they asked if I could also put it on CD...Of course this is a problem as it gets away from the server client model.
So - I thought that perhaps I could encapsulate all of my logic in .dlls that takes arguments from the search page and output an HTML page. On the web site I could use ASP to accept data from forms and pass them to the dlls, and on the CD I could use something else (got to figure that one out). The CD version could be built as an HTA (HTML Application) so that all the formatting and graphics remain the same.
I need to know if there's any problems logically here. The client has put out lots of static sites on CD and wants it in a browser based format (so no VB programs or anything). Can I pass data from an HTML form to a dll? I think you can do something similar in perl (thakns to a friend's recommendation), but I'm much more familiar with VB...Any brilliant ideas?
Oh yeah, to get around the database server problem on the cd, I thought I might do the whole thing (web and cd) from an XML data source. You can do a fair amount with JavaScript or VBScript and an XML dso...I could also just use XSLT to output each disease page rather than an ASP template...thinking out loud...Any contributors/comments?
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