First work on your back end DB (mySql). Then you probably want to install the DBI module. The front end can be done with HTML and CGI, maybe javascript. Break this project into pieces and then post questions to this list and the DBI and CGI list as you progress. I would break it down like this:
1. Build and populate your DB 2. Design your front end Pages and query forms, pop up windows, etc (HTML, XML, javascript ...) 3. Install DBI and the DBD (for mysql ) modules and try some test queries to your DB. read 'perldoc DBI'. You can download these modules here: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/ and here: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/ some links: http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/1999/10/DBI.html http://www.danchan.com/feature/2000/10/16/mysql/mysql3.htm http://www.saturn5.com/~jwb/dbi-examples.html 4. Write your cgi scripts to link your front end forms with your db and do dynamic cool stuff. Here is a list of perl mailing list: http://lists.perl.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Lundeen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:44 PM > To: begin begin; perlbegin > Subject: pop-up window with database access > > > Hello, > > I'm creating a web site for our department at my school. We have a > sign-up form for a society that people can join. I want to create a > MySQL database of university names and allow the user to click on a > "Lookup" button on the sign-up form when they get to the field > "University Affiliation" and the pop-up window would then go > out and get > a list of universities in the database and allow them to select the > university they are with, then the selected value would be put in the > correct text box on the main page form. I would guess that > JavaScript is involved, but I don't know. > > Any help (detailed help!) would be very much appreciated by many > students and professors from around the world! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
