Project: Using a Web Interface to Edit Records in a Database
Chapter 3 covered a lot of the basics of connecting a Web site to a database: creating a connection to a database, collecting a set of data, cleaning up that data, then dropping it into a template that generates the HTML page that a visitor actually sees.
If you have a database where data entry is performed using a front end, such as the MS Access front end described in Chapter 3, that may be all you need. But there are several reasons that you might prefer to use a Web interface to manage the data. If a lot of different people will be editing information in the database, it'll be a heck of a lot easier to set up a script on a Web server than to set everyone up with a database front ...
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