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Strategies back online (almost)
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I have started to restore the old strategies. I just wanted to get some feedback on the navigating through the strategies as well as the look at feel.
Thanks.
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Rules are coming back online too. I thought you people would be ebullient. Oh, well.
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Cheers!
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This is the happiest i’ve been since . . . ummm . . . ever?
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Didn’t I remember you saying something about a content-management system?
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Yeah, this is the first step of it. Right now it consists of me entering the articles in the database manually and then running a script to automatically generate the pages.
The next step is to add a form so that people can submit articles and I can approve/edit them and put them up on the site.
After that (or maybe before), I’m going to set up a way to rate the articles on a scale of one to five.
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Nice! Any help that you need, just ask. I wish I had the web-skills you and Deviant have :)
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Same goes with me, just holler and I’d be happy to help. I know all that database programming and server scripting.
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djensen, do you have the content in electronic format already?
If yes then is there anything that can be used to delimit the fields you want or perhaps even a fixed field length? If so you can use Microsoft access to import a text document into an access database, link that access database into an Oracle/SQL server or pret’near any other database via ODBC and write simple querries to bang it in.
I hate microsoft but believe it or not I worked for a company that did data migrations from AS/400 to Compaq Alpha servers running NT 4.0 using a laptop running windows and access to ‘migrate’ the data over. Did it for fortune 500 companies no less. I know referential integrity rules like da back of me hand!
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All the articles are currently in XML format. So I could write an XML parser to read the articles and insert them into the database. But I think it might take me jsut as long to write and test that parser than it would to enter everything manually.
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Well I haven’t worked with XML but I imagine access can still read it fairly easily using a wizard, or not….? I guess it all depends on how much typing is involved for the most part. :-)
MS Access is a suprisingly good tool when working with databases. This coming from a guy who hates microsoft…
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