Re: how to best approach a massive list?

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:07:02 -0600, mbstevens wrote:

richard wrote:
I've been working on a massive project for several months. Basically it is
all primarily text with the display showing up in table format.

Basically, one table would show the 3 primary items. Then the second table
would show a calendar, with 3 rows of info. The calendar would be a simple
weekly report thing. Not daily.

Instead of showing each and every item on one huge page, I was thinking of
perhaps showing just one. The user would click on the list of "names" and
then a table would show up displaying the findings.

Question is, which format would be best suited for this? I am kind of
leaning towards PHP but know diddly squat about it.

Anyone reading the post so far is likely to be confused.
There are tables on a webpage, indicated by <table> and there are tables
on databases like SQL; they are different things, and each has its own format.
PHP is not a format, it is a programming language that can be used for
programming web pages along with SQL or other databases.


Any one have any clues
or perhaps a website that might show something similar?

Yeah I know you guys are gonna ask for a link to the material. Don't have
one yet. I know it's sketchy but it's the best I can do for now.

But here's one idea I had played with.

<table><tr><td>item1</td><td>item2</td><td>item3</td></tr></table>
<table>


<tr>January</td>
...Whup! That dog won't hunt.


Wow! Hey look typo flame!




<tr><td>1</td><td>8</td><td>15</td><td>22</td><td>29</td></tr>
<tr><td>99</td><td>99</td><td>99</td><td>99</td><td>99</td></tr>
</table>

Multiply that 1000 times and you soon see just how huge of a page that
would be. I would not be showing all 12 months, at the most, maybe 6.

Use PHP, Perl, Ruby, or Python to access a data base and rewrite pages
on the fly. Google each of those languages along with HTML, SQL, and CGI.
Rewrite the page given initial user input.

sanku muchos graxias comrade.
.

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