Hello,
I did some searching here but can't find anything about my specific issue, so I'm starting a new thread. Apologies if I missed the info elsewhere.
I find lots of ways to use an HTML form to add data to a database, but I don't need to add; I need to access. I have a database of my media collection for which I want to create an HTML look-up form to access the data in a web browser. Basically, I want friends who come over for a music or movie night to be able to query my local database - this is not an internet-based database, it's just located on my backup computer, for a song or show to watch. For example, if they want to watch a "screwball comedy" they could enter that in the search form, click Run, and all the screwball comedies in the database would show. Or, they could pick a song or film directly, or search for an artist, an actor or director, etc., or they could enter a combination of search terms (more than one artist - for example, if they did duet recordings or something - or search for actors who appeared together (ex: Myrna Loy and William Powell in the Thin Man films), or search for all the films in a specific film series (007 films, Thin Man, Pink Panther, etc).
I am not super tech-savvy, so am looking for the easiest (and, hopefully, a free) plug-in solution to my problem! :)). Some 25 to 30 years ago I was involved in database management using SQL, but it was a sideline to my main job (which was not computer related, I just got tasked with helping the IT people because we were a small company just beginning to computerize our operations and I knew a little about databases). What advice would you give to someone trying to do this? Is there a simple plug-in type of form I can use for this (hopefully!), using simple SQL to populate the form, or am I going to have to use a WAMP server or something?
Any help anyone can provide would be most appreciated.
Thank you so much!
Padraig
I did some searching here but can't find anything about my specific issue, so I'm starting a new thread. Apologies if I missed the info elsewhere.
I find lots of ways to use an HTML form to add data to a database, but I don't need to add; I need to access. I have a database of my media collection for which I want to create an HTML look-up form to access the data in a web browser. Basically, I want friends who come over for a music or movie night to be able to query my local database - this is not an internet-based database, it's just located on my backup computer, for a song or show to watch. For example, if they want to watch a "screwball comedy" they could enter that in the search form, click Run, and all the screwball comedies in the database would show. Or, they could pick a song or film directly, or search for an artist, an actor or director, etc., or they could enter a combination of search terms (more than one artist - for example, if they did duet recordings or something - or search for actors who appeared together (ex: Myrna Loy and William Powell in the Thin Man films), or search for all the films in a specific film series (007 films, Thin Man, Pink Panther, etc).
I am not super tech-savvy, so am looking for the easiest (and, hopefully, a free) plug-in solution to my problem! :)). Some 25 to 30 years ago I was involved in database management using SQL, but it was a sideline to my main job (which was not computer related, I just got tasked with helping the IT people because we were a small company just beginning to computerize our operations and I knew a little about databases). What advice would you give to someone trying to do this? Is there a simple plug-in type of form I can use for this (hopefully!), using simple SQL to populate the form, or am I going to have to use a WAMP server or something?
Any help anyone can provide would be most appreciated.
Thank you so much!
Padraig
Statistics: Posted by giardap — Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:02 pm