Web based programming.....some help?

[Darksamie]

I have asked this question not long ago, but when I came back to see the replies that I had, it seems that this message disappeared.....so here goes again

What I am trying to do is make a keyword search on a page. What I have right now is a list of keywords each certain name, with there being around 15 names. My question is, how the hell do I get this going? I don't know what it has to be coded in and how.....If anyone has a pointer to a web site that could help with this kind of thing or some help to offer themselves, I would be very grateful.

 

[snowyowl]

If you are running this on your own server, you could use Active Server Pages and write the code in VB Script. This page may give you some help. http://www.aspwatch.com/
You can see how to read use database files, excel spreadsheets, etc on your web pages.

 

[UGonnaCry]

Alot of times perl/CGI is alot more friendly, it being non-object oriented. Let me tell, object-oriented is a B**ch to learn if you don't have something good to teach you. For some perl stuff try www.wdvl.com, it also has lots of web stuff.

 

[Train]

Perl IS object Oriented,

and if your talking user friendly, VBscript beats Perl any day of the week

 

[MetalCat]

Perl 'supports' object oriented programming, there is a slight diffrence as it can be written with diffrent styles.

Thou the server is more of an issue here because that will dictate what languages can be supported.

I would write it in PHP any day as is more portable that all of them, will beat VB perfomance wise and both of them in readability.

 

[Darksamie]

Since the search capabilities are not going to be very large (we are talking maybe 50 items, I was thinking about using an array in javascript. I can't use ASP or SQL and I don't know CGI or Perl....So am pretty stuck there.

 

[dcpsoguy]

Perhaps try to go to hotscripts.com or http://www.cgi-resources.com and search for keyword search. There is probably something there

 

[MetalCat]

It can be done in JavaScript easily , but will be a bit messy to maintain.

 

[Darksamie]

Could anyone help me as to how to display the information? I have learnt how to read in the information and how to setup the array and things like that, but what my script relies on is a set of if-then statements in order to get the right answer. How so I display the results of these if-then statements?

 

[MetalCat]

Tutorail Here

Look at the bottom for document.write.blah.blah.blah