Glen, Dennis and Arnold. OK thanks for the pointers to those sites.
I had come across those PHP/GEDCOM styled sites. But had yet to find a ASP flavoured one. Hence my want to program ASP pages to replace the Legacy generated HTML files. I program ASP for a living (well one of the many hat's that I have to wear) and operate a number of webservers that run Microsoft Server 2000/3 that are running IIS 5.0 or IIS 6.0. IIS's native scripting language is ASP. I don't want to use PHP or to place a GEDCOM file up on the webserver. That's not what I am interested in doing. I want to create the ASP pages and use the fdb file that Legacy creates. It will be way faster than having pages talk to a potentially huge txt file (GEDCOM) There just seems to be scope/room for another major web scripting langauge other than PHP or using a GEDCOM file to display this data that is sitting in this relational database. Blair ----- Original Message ----- From: Glen Ballard To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:59:16 -0800 Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] MS-Access use with Legacy Blair, Take a look at http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php. I too was looking for a dynamic solution for my website. This uses PHP instead of ASP, but is fast and the support is great. Glen Ballard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair M. Rogers Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] MS-Access use with Legacy Initially, I'd only be looking at the using ASP pages to display information. A case of walking before running. Would also need to check the Licence agreement about updating the db with ASP pages. Some companies don't allow this. Getting rid of the bizillion web pages would be an easy thing to do - however will take a fair bit of testing to ensure that all the page features would work correctly. I have my own domain name here in NZ - so less of an issue for me to host my own pages - and also have my own webservers - so monthly rental costs or even server disc space is not a consideration for me. You'd probably be surprised at the number of people that have access to an MS IIS server. I am thinking of writing the ASP pages that would replicate exactly what Legacy produces right now. So instead of thousands of pages created for each individual person. There would be just one ASP page that handles a person's details. As an example of how this works see these --->> http://stats.allblacks.com/atoz.asp?group=A and http://stats.allblacks.com/Profile.asp?ABID=7 What I am thinking of creating (and pretty certain I am able to as well) is the ASP pages, some associated ASP pages that handle calls to the db etc Then all a user would need to do is upload those to an ASP webserver along with the Legacy DB and they would be instantly into action. Well that's the theory. ;-) Blair -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coddgenealogy Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2006 1:25 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] MS-Access use with Legacy I'm certainly interested in getting better at using Access to modify, query, and manipulate Legacy files. A bizillion web pages (and updating them) is certainly a problem and would be worth tackling. I haven't pursued it because rootsweb offers free, nearly unlimited, server space for family trees, but does not allow things like php or sql or stuff that builds a page on the fly. Just static web pages and simple technology. For example, you can't get the code to have google search just your own "website" to work, and a genealogy website without its own search utility is pretty compromised. The rental cost of, say, 100mb of server space still isn't cheap, when you consider that it's a monthly fixed cost incurred perpetually. The other obstacle is that Legacy has done a reasonably good job of web designing, which one gets simply by pushing a button. Are you thinking/able to supply the same via ASP? Otherwise your end users are left learning some software language to produce decent-looking, format error-free web pages. Jonathan Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. 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