Good Day All;

Let me say right from the start I am somewhat new at this.

At my place of work I am trying to convince the "higher_ups_" that using web forms and web reports is the way to go. It seems the only way I will be able to do this, is to develop an application @ home and show how it was done.
This is what I would like to do.

Show how a web form can be used to collect data.
Show how Web reports can be used to report.


I have been looking at MS Visual Web developer, Macromedia as a tool to use at home.
The problem with any "new" tool, I need to develop it at home and then (screen shots and or Macromedia Captivate) show how it can be used.

Any suggestions.

Regards

Chomp

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Originally Posted by chomp

I have been looking at MS Visual Web developer, Macromedia as a tool to use at home.
The problem with any "new" tool, I need to develop it at home and then (screen shots and or Macromedia Captivate) show how it can be used.

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It's not clear from the above what you mean by "new" tool: MS Visual Web developer and Macromedia, or something other than these. I'll assume you're including these tools in the "new" category.

My suggestion would be to do a simple set of forms and reports in PHP that uses a flat file database as a proof of concept, which I believe is what you're talking about. Usually with management types, it's good to develop a demonstration that relates to some degree to the actual work the company does.

I'd recommend the following text for its examples:

Amazon.com: PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) (Developer's Library): Books: Luke Welling,Laura Thomson

Go through the examples in Chapter 2, Storing and Retrieving Data (it's only 20 pages and they provide source code); there's a complete example of storing orders in a simple flat file database and retrieving them in simple reports. If you understand what's being done in this chapter, you'll be able to edit the example scripts to develop a demo for management. You might want to look at what's covered in Chapters 3 & 4, too. Note that you *don't* need to learn MySQL for a proof of concept demonstration; using a flat file database should be sufficient.

You'll have to make sure PHP is installed & running on your home PC as well as the demo PC at work. I've done this on a Mac but not on a Windows machine, so I can't be of much help there. The book cited has an appendix on installing PHP, and you might Google "install php" for resources like this one:

PHP: Installation on Windows systems - Manual

Vasily

This has started me in the right direction to produce a demo