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as ICT Prefect at my school. i've been asked to come up with a site on our intranet (and soon internet) that will display info about past pupils form our school.

unfortunately our school webserver is crap. it has no server technologies. just html! :(

however i may be able to bug our server admin to get something like Perl or PHP on it. (WinNT server)

anyways...my idea is for it to be like http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/

basically:

You sign in.

you have your personal page for you to create/edit

details of personal page stored on Access DB? (i dunno)

Basically the personal page is gonna be edited and look like the MSN Member Dir. to cut things short.

also...gotta be able to list the school years. (eg. im of year '97) and within those list all the pupils who have entered their details.

if u get my general idea and can help.... PLEASE DO!

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hey im 97 too

first year of AS?

yea you'd be better off getting a MySQL DB instead of accses other than that perl/php sounds good

as i quick point your gonna have too be very security conciese on this as your storing personal details and make it so that no email addys etc get out use a PM style system - to keep in within the Data protection act

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As smifffy said, go with mySQL instead of Access. You'll need somekind of a server side language if you want to do something like this, unless you don't mind creating a page everytime someone signs up.

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AS?

keep in mind people, that i'm Scottish and have a different school system than...everyone else. (and probably better organsised)

also...im not too keen on MySQL coz there is not 1 person who knows how to use it or set it up in our school. (not even me)

but we can all sorta use Access. and i know minamilist PHP and Perl but can set them up coz i know what stuff would be needed.

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AS?

keep in mind people, that i'm Scottish and have a different school system than...everyone else. (and probably better organsised)

also...im not too keen on MySQL coz there is not 1 person who knows how to use it or set it up in our school. (not even me)

but we can all sorta use Access. and i know minamilist PHP and Perl but can set them up coz i know what stuff would be needed.

right- remember the year when they just didnt mark all those kids papers- i see where your coming from there dude but anyway... :)

mysql / php job would work just fine.

I suggest that unless you want to pay me money, you nip onto to amazon, and grab a begginers guide to php and mysql - or find some online web tutorials. There are many many many scripts which will do what you want for you out there, or you can make your own. :)

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There are many many many scripts which will do what you want for you out there, or you can make your own. :)

Really? i checked hotscripts...but couldn't find anything there that could do what i was asking for....but i may have been looking in the wrong place :rolleyes:

from what i can understand form my idea (helpful huh?) what i need is like a template page. and every time a person clicks on someones name it calls up the persons details from the DB and dumps them (in order) on the template page (kinda like mail merging)

i really hope what im saying makes sence :blink:

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/16929.html <-- sort of thing for signing people up?

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