Running A Program From A Webpage

[PaidtheUmpire]

Thanks for any help given,

This is what i want to happen:

A user clicks a button and behind the seens a large about of data in the form of a CSV file is generated (AutoGen.csv)

This new data is then put into a MemoBox in a Delphi program which then runs and an output file is created (AutoGen.kml) Is there a way for this to happen via a webpage? And would this allow the user to download the new file easily?

Thanks again.
Paid The Umpire

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[towerbase]

Is this first user click in a web (Delphi?) application or is it in a local (Delphi) application ?

Have you looked at the FAQs relating to "Delphi, PHP and MySQL" as these show how local Delphi applications can talk to web based applications and transfer data between the client and the server?

Is this AutoGen.kml file actually XML ?

Andrew
Hampshire, UK

 

[PaidtheUmpire]

How it would work for a client.
Load site inside a browser (IE or Firefox).
Select the dates they want the data for, and then click "CREATE KML" button.
A file would then be autogenerated and avaiable for download from the browser.

How I think it could really work.
User clicks button.
CSV file in generated.
CSV file in loaded into a MemoBox in the Delphi7 program, which is on the server but not visable to user.
Delphi7 program then formats MemoBox data into the required KML output format.
KML is downloaded by user.

KML format
Is the format of GoogleEarth files, it is XML.

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