Re: MySQL as document storage?

2004-01-08 Thread Troy T. Hall
pardon me for asking a stupid question, but when your storing data into MySQL or any database for that matter, isn't data data? Does this have something to do with the BLOB type? ( Which I've never understood anyway ). I'm very new at this and am wanting to store documents that have database

Re: Newbie: need form to input records View report

2004-01-02 Thread Troy T. Hall
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]

Re: Newbie: need form to input records View report

2004-01-02 Thread Troy T. Hall
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

Newbie: need form to input records View report

2004-01-01 Thread Troy T. Hall
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

Newbie: Design question

2003-12-21 Thread Troy T. Hall
I have a contract that has about 6 fields that need to be filled out each time it is signed. My goal is to have a form that only asks for the missing information then includes that into the contract which is then printed and then stored in a database completed. There would be 3 unique things

newbie question re: openoffice file stored in mysql via web

2003-12-13 Thread Troy T. Hall
I have an openoffice document that is a contract. It has several fields that need to be filled at the time of signing. I want to have a form that is accessible form a webpage, that will automatically put the filled data into the contract and then save it in the mysql database under the