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Dec 30.2006

Hello,

Can someone offer some options for implementing the following task?

I have a text file stored locally on a machine and I want to be able to add to it using a web interface. There’s a set of options for adding, I’d like to have pull down menus for each of these options to avoid syntax errors.

Esentially, I’d like to open a browser, chose some options from pull-down menus, enter some text and have those options added to the end of the file.

The pull-downs and text entry part is easy, the hard part for me is getting the info into the text file.

Sorry to be so vague, let me know what y’all think.

Thanks!

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@ray326Jan 01.2007 — Run a web server on the host and treat the file like it's remote regardless of where you are. You can then alter it using any server side technology you have available.
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@pbattauthorJan 01.2007 — Any server side technology you would recommend using?
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@bathurst_guyJan 01.2007 — PHP (it's free and personally I love it)
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@pbattauthorJan 01.2007 — Is there a way I could set up sort of a "test environment" for this type of project? I deally I would work up the script and test against some text file, but I would rather not go through the process of setting up a web server until I needed to. Does this make sense?

Thanks for all the advice, I've never done any web development before.
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@ray326Jan 01.2007 — Setting up a web server is pretty close to trivial. If you're on Win2K or XP Pro you can just turn on IIS and use ASP. For other MS OSs you can get Apache and do Perl/CGI or PHP. Or for any OS you could get Tomcat and do it in Java. Lots of choices but IIS/ASP would be the easiest if your OS is right.
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@pbattauthorJan 01.2007 — Thanks Ray. I'll try IIS and ASP and see how that works out.

Would you recomend any good books on the subject? Something more general that covers the web app technology, instead of being language specific would be great.
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@ray326Jan 02.2007 — Look over what O'reilly and Wrox have but I don't know of any that don't have a particular back end architecture focus. If you start out understanding how the Model-View-Controller pattern applies to web apps then it gets a lot easier to see how each server-side architecture fits. Usually it's described in Java as

[B]JSP->servlet-Java/JDBC->JSP [/B]

but in simple ASP it comes down to

[B](visual)ASP->(non-visual)ASP/OLEDB->(visual)ASP[/B].
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@pbattauthorJan 02.2007 — Thank you!
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