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I noticed you got a lot of feed back. Another site to take a look at for php is www.codewalkers.com. They have some excellent tutorials. And as a forum to ask questions in I would recommend www.phphelp.com. I have been to sitepoint and it is a good site but I prefer these for my php development. Life is a game... So have fun. Ligaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to build something like a web form you will need to use HTML and a scripting language. A common solution to do what you are asking is to use PHP. You will need to be familiar with PHP to go further. Go to http://www.php.net to get a hold of the basics. There is no way to write a walkthrough for your problem here as it would be quite long :o). It would also be repititive since there are millions of sites that provide such walkthroughs. Go to www.sitepoint.com, which is a web dev portal. My favortite. They have tons of usefull articles and step by step walkthroughs. From a big picture point of view what you need to do is use PHP to generate HTML dynamically and handle application logic, database interactivity. Use the MySQL database as your data store [obviously ;)]. PHP is an excellent choice as it works very well with MySQL. If this sounds like greek then don't worry too much. Head to sitepoint.com and go to the php section and start learning. It is an excellent resource. PHP.net is a good place too although you might want to go to sitepoint first. Best of luck, Arjun Quoting Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this sounds stupid but I'm totally lost. I've created a MySQL DB whose purpose is to track customers who have not gotten a newspaper. I've created all the necessary fields, and have managed to learn how to add/delete/modify the records in mysqlcc, but what I want is to have a predesigned form like you'd find on a webpage where you simply enter the complaints and hit submit or whatever, and it responds with the complaint ID # ( ComplaintID is an autoincrement field in the db ) Then I need to be able to print a report in a nicely labeled/readable format showing all entries made that day where the chargeable field is not List (Chargeable is an enum consisting of yes, no, list). Will someone please be kind enough to point me in the right direction. I can't seem to get my head around this concept. Troy oh, if it matters, I'm using Linux Mandrake 9.2 with the Gnome 2.0 GDM. I also have qtDesigner, OO, Screem. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: need form to input records View report
If you want to build something like a web form you will need to use HTML and a scripting language. A common solution to do what you are asking is to use PHP. You will need to be familiar with PHP to go further. Go to http://www.php.net to get a hold of the basics. There is no way to write a walkthrough for your problem here as it would be quite long :o). It would also be repititive since there are millions of sites that provide such walkthroughs. Go to www.sitepoint.com, which is a web dev portal. My favortite. They have tons of usefull articles and step by step walkthroughs. From a big picture point of view what you need to do is use PHP to generate HTML dynamically and handle application logic, database interactivity. Use the MySQL database as your data store [obviously ;)]. PHP is an excellent choice as it works very well with MySQL. If this sounds like greek then don't worry too much. Head to sitepoint.com and go to the php section and start learning. It is an excellent resource. PHP.net is a good place too although you might want to go to sitepoint first. Best of luck, Arjun Quoting Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this sounds stupid but I'm totally lost. I've created a MySQL DB whose purpose is to track customers who have not gotten a newspaper. I've created all the necessary fields, and have managed to learn how to add/delete/modify the records in mysqlcc, but what I want is to have a predesigned form like you'd find on a webpage where you simply enter the complaints and hit submit or whatever, and it responds with the complaint ID # ( ComplaintID is an autoincrement field in the db ) Then I need to be able to print a report in a nicely labeled/readable format showing all entries made that day where the chargeable field is not List (Chargeable is an enum consisting of yes, no, list). Will someone please be kind enough to point me in the right direction. I can't seem to get my head around this concept. Troy oh, if it matters, I'm using Linux Mandrake 9.2 with the Gnome 2.0 GDM. I also have qtDesigner, OO, Screem. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: need form to input records View report
Troy T. Hall wrote: I know this sounds stupid but I'm totally lost. I've created a MySQL DB whose purpose is to track customers who have not gotten a newspaper. I've created all the necessary fields, and have managed to learn how to add/delete/modify the records in mysqlcc, but what I want is to have a predesigned form like you'd find on a webpage where you simply enter the complaints and hit submit or whatever, and it responds with the complaint ID # ( ComplaintID is an autoincrement field in the db ) Then I need to be able to print a report in a nicely labeled/readable format showing all entries made that day where the chargeable field is not List (Chargeable is an enum consisting of yes, no, list). Will someone please be kind enough to point me in the right direction. I can't seem to get my head around this concept. Troy oh, if it matters, I'm using Linux Mandrake 9.2 with the Gnome 2.0 GDM. I also have qtDesigner, OO, Screem. Have you looked at RT ( http://http://bestpractical.com/rt/ ) ? We are using it to receive customer complains. When the customer sends an email they get a Complain ID and there are lot of other things as optional The best part is it is free and and have excellent mailing list with supports. It requires Perl/MySQL/Apache+mod_perl1 Very easy to manage and excellent tool -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Asif Iqbal http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x8B686E08 There's no place like 127.0.0.1 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie: need form to input records View report
Its been a long time since I've looked at RT. I was trying to remember what I had seen before that did things very similar to what I'm doing and now you've reminded me... ty.. I don't think its 100% of my solution, but it might be part. More reading LOL Troy Asif Iqbal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: need form to input records View report
Thanks for the good tips... I'll be doing that this weekend. I think the hardest part is going to be trying to figure out how to store a contract once all the fields have been populated. Its an OO document at this point. Troy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to build something like a web form you will need to use HTML and a scripting language. A common solution to do what you are asking is to use PHP. You will need to be familiar with PHP to go further. Go to http://www.php.net to get a hold of the basics. There is no way to write a walkthrough for your problem here as it would be quite long :o). It would also be repititive since there are millions of sites that provide such walkthroughs. Go to www.sitepoint.com, which is a web dev portal. My favortite. They have tons of usefull articles and step by step walkthroughs. From a big picture point of view what you need to do is use PHP to generate HTML dynamically and handle application logic, database interactivity. Use the MySQL database as your data store [obviously ;)]. PHP is an excellent choice as it works very well with MySQL. If this sounds like greek then don't worry too much. Head to sitepoint.com and go to the php section and start learning. It is an excellent resource. PHP.net is a good place too although you might want to go to sitepoint first. Best of luck, Arjun Quoting Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this sounds stupid but I'm totally lost. I've created a MySQL DB whose purpose is to track customers who have not gotten a newspaper. I've created all the necessary fields, and have managed to learn how to add/delete/modify the records in mysqlcc, but what I want is to have a predesigned form like you'd find on a webpage where you simply enter the complaints and hit submit or whatever, and it responds with the complaint ID # ( ComplaintID is an autoincrement field in the db ) Then I need to be able to print a report in a nicely labeled/readable format showing all entries made that day where the chargeable field is not List (Chargeable is an enum consisting of yes, no, list). Will someone please be kind enough to point me in the right direction. I can't seem to get my head around this concept. Troy oh, if it matters, I'm using Linux Mandrake 9.2 with the Gnome 2.0 GDM. I also have qtDesigner, OO, Screem. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie: need form to input records View report
I know this sounds stupid but I'm totally lost. I've created a MySQL DB whose purpose is to track customers who have not gotten a newspaper. I've created all the necessary fields, and have managed to learn how to add/delete/modify the records in mysqlcc, but what I want is to have a predesigned form like you'd find on a webpage where you simply enter the complaints and hit submit or whatever, and it responds with the complaint ID # ( ComplaintID is an autoincrement field in the db ) Then I need to be able to print a report in a nicely labeled/readable format showing all entries made that day where the chargeable field is not List (Chargeable is an enum consisting of yes, no, list). Will someone please be kind enough to point me in the right direction. I can't seem to get my head around this concept. Troy oh, if it matters, I'm using Linux Mandrake 9.2 with the Gnome 2.0 GDM. I also have qtDesigner, OO, Screem. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
