How is this done?

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CypherCoder

Posted 13 March 2008 - 03:15 PM

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Hey everyone. So I'm on the Information Technology team at my school and I am going to be for the next four years. I'm always out running to teachers and stuff because everyone has problems. So.. I was wondering.. How could this be done? What I want is a .exe program, (or if this can't be done, a website works fine) that I can just open, login to, and it already has a list of teachers at my school programmed in. I can start typing and it will in the name for me (much like our MS Access call database does) and when it does that, I can hit go or whatever and have it bring up a teacher profile of them. Like picture, name, classroom, schedule, additional info. Something like that. Anyone have any comments on how to do this? Or any help at all? I don't have coding knowledge beyond HTML, CSS, and basic PHP. Thanks guys this would be a great help to my entire iT team.

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Guest_Jordan_*

Posted 14 March 2008 - 04:15 AM

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You can do this many ways with many different languages. Since you already know HTML and PHP why not do it as a website? Then you can access it from any computer.

As for the name, you are talking about the auto-fill such as in FireFox and IE? You can do this with JavaScript

Search can be PHP which connects to a database. You can use database functions to do your search query. Return the results and display the profile of the teacher.

The hard part is typing in all of the information about each teacher..

#3
bvaessen

Posted 16 July 2008 - 12:17 AM

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In case of website using the programming skills you already have, you could use HTML combined with PHP to make a website, having an SQL database underneath, in which the teachers' data is stored. About the inputbox: I think you are talking about a so called auto-complete function, like many websits and programs have nowadays. It can be done with AJAX technology. Just google on "auto complete ajax". The idea is to NOT refresh the complete website for each character one enters in an input field, but just update this field only.

If you would like to create an own executable program for windows, you could download Visual Studio Express. It is free, and quite an easy step for beginners to learn e.g. C# or Visual basic if you already have some basic programming background. However, in case you will, like you said "include the teachers profiles in the program" this means that each client side program would have to be changed in case new teachers are hired, or the profile changes. You should therefore store that information centrally, and not in the program itself. For this, again you can use a database.

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#4
jessje

Posted 16 July 2008 - 01:47 AM

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Mozilla had showd some kind of app a while ago which was a browser which works like a application.
i am forgotten the name, but it would be perfect for your needs.

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bvaessen

Posted 16 July 2008 - 02:35 AM

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Probably he wants to make something himself, otherwise he could just use Outlook or something like that ofcourse.

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