Form to Table

[MadMango]

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone knows a way that I can have a Form Field on one page that writes to a specific cell in a table on another page?

Application: I am developing an Engineering site, where project teams should be able to post a text-based status update of their projects.

Problem: These users don't know HTML and these updates should post to the site automatically.

My Idea: Engineers should have to connect to a secure server (via Username and Password) and type in a Form Field what they have done. When they Submitt, the form needs to write to a specific cell of a table on a different page. Then other users can simply go to this page to see real-time updates.

Is this possible to do with DreamWeaver, or am I looking at some high-end ASP programming?

 

[Cheech]

Get Ultradev and Access they will enable you to submit form data to a database then display it on another page Live long and make your kids suffer..

 

[EugenePaliev]

Hello MadMango!

You defenitely need some server-side programming (like ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, CGI, etc.) for your project. There is a good way for you to start with it using Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev. Basicly it's a usual Dreamweaver with on good extension that works with Data driven applications. If you only have Dreamweaver you need to get Dreamweaver UltraDev - I don't know is there a way to upgrade or just get an extension - check it out on Macromedia's site.

But you can do programming ASP without UltraDev - but do it manually while UltraDev does most things automaticly for you.
Good Luck!

 

[MadMango]

Thanks for the input folks... not the answers I was looking for, but the answers I was expecting.

 

[chandler]

You definitely do not need Ultradev to pass variables. In fact, unless you're doing some major server side data-driven stuff like ASP, JSP, PHP, or Cold Fusion, Ultradev is major over kill. To do what you're doing, go search the web for some cgi/perl scripts and see if your host supports server side scripting. You should be able to just copy/paste the script straight into your html page and make the necessary modifications to your needs. Chandler
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