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Amiga database with HTML output?
« on: June 26, 2004, 08:18:00 PM »
I'm looking for a database that can output it's cells into a HTML
website. What I mean by this for example is a HTML page that when a
link is clicked will access data from a field defined in the database.

It could be live via Apache or just converted to seperate HTML pages
for offline reading.

Like an eBay system I suppose.

Any such examples on Amiga?

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Re: Amiga database with HTML output?
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2004, 10:40:08 PM »
I think what lorddef is suggesting would be more what I'm looking for.
Is MySQL available for Amiga though?

Amiga.org is an impressive site but I bet it's made on a PC. I'm not
looking for my HTML style database to be online though, I just thought
it would be nice to present my database data in HTML format (for ease
of browsing) and with nice big 24-bit pictures embedded within it.

I love the way you can sort the order of entries on eBay like you can
do with MUI menus.

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Re: Amiga database with HTML output?
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2004, 12:11:27 PM »
Yes, I think I'll investigate mySQL.

What I wanted to try for example is have a database of car
specifications and then a HTML document that when you click "Engine"
would arrange all the cars in order of engine capacity.

Then a user could click "Colour" and they'd all sort in order of
colour or "Top Speed" etc.

Like when MUI sorts a list with that black triangle icon, but as a
link.

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Re: Amiga database with HTML output?
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2004, 08:53:38 PM »
Thanks trochej,
   I'll investigate each one for Amiga!

One thing I wondered about eBay though - when you enter a HTTP you are
not accessing a list of files but a CGI script running as a program on
a PC.

So with any database linked HTML document it would need a machine
responding i.e no offline browsing unless say AWeb spoke directly to
the Amiga port of mySQL.

I suppose there is AREXX stuff for this but that's getting too complex
for my hobbyist intention, I've never understood how to program and
execute an AREXX script. Maybe I need a book!

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Re: Amiga database with HTML output?
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2004, 10:44:32 PM »
Wow, that looks excellent!

I didn't really want to go that advanced as I just wanted to build an
offline web-page that would display database fields as HTML frames.

But this looks fascinating.

Thanks, I might play with it sometimes. I might need one of those
books though!

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