Re: Database on the Web questions

hats@servtech.com (Hugo Acosta) wrote: >This is my first time porting a message, and I am new in this >Newsgroup. >I need know if there is a pre-designed software program (UNIX based I >believed) that can act as >a Database Search engine in a specific Web site, where it could >manipulate (search and query) >specific data that is periodically updated and input from an external >source. >.... >Can anybody from this group give an idea of existing programs for this >particular Internet >application..? I'm sure there are popular names or organizations that >I just don't happen to know >because of my ignorance in this (UNIX based) field. This is a rapidly growing field with new products coming to market frequently. Database queries, insertions, edits, and deletes can be made live to a table in your database via Common Gateway Interface CGI scripts. These scripts are the basis of the new software packages. They basically construct HTML versions of forms for the web client to input data, and then construct HTML forms on the fly with output data, e.g. the record(s) resulting from a query. Two major products in this area are dbWeb and Cold Fusion. I don't know about whether they work with UNIX. See the Dec' 95 issue of DBMS magazine at www.dbmsmag.com for additional information. Then it's a process of checking out products to see if they do what you want. That's what I'm doing now. Alan Z. Scharf GrapeVine Systems New York City