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Hello,

This is my first post here, so Hi everyone :). I was advised to come to this site by a friend regarding a query that I have, so here I am.

So we have the E-Commerce subject in this semester. One of the case studies given to us involves creating a website.

BUT

The faculty wants us to create the site using only HTML / XML / WML / DHTML and MS Access / Oracle / SQL

Does anyone here know how do you link to a database using ONLY the above. No asp, jsp, php. He is very specific that no server-side scripting language should be used.

EDIT:
The topic chosen by me is "Auto Dealer"
The website will be created for an automobile dealer, which will have the following:
1. Browsing of all available automobile, with their photos, specifications and prices ( updated weekly )
2. Infomation about Loan / EMI calculated depending on info given by the visitor.
3. Form for leaving call-back details.
/EDIT:

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Member Avatar for ShawnCplus

It's impossible to get data from a database with only HTML/DHTML. If they expect you to then they should be fired. HTML is a completely static language. There are no facilities of a programming language aside from Server Side Includes.

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Hello ShawnCplus,

Thanks for the reply..
Would javascript help the above ? Probably not, right ?

I agree with you on one thing. He's someone who thinks he knows everything.

Anyway, can you comment on the topic that I've chosen ? Say I start making it in php. Would it be good enough ?

Member Avatar for ShawnCplus

You can't really interact with a database with JavaScript but PHP can do it quite easily. Read up a bit on PHP and you'll find that the task is quite simple.

Member Avatar for Fungus1487

you can technically fake the interaction if thats what he means.

AJAX uses javascript to interact with a server side page. you dont actually see the page interacting with the javascript so it would technically be a html page. so to speak.

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

> you dont actually see the page interacting with the javascript so it would technically be a html
> page
Every page served to the client technically has a content type of 'text/html'. The dynamic nature is due to the merit of the form element being able to post its data to a remote resource specified by it's action property, which is capable of processing that data.

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

Again, with URL rewriting and redirection, those file extensions and URL's don't mean anything. I can very well have a page with url http://www.mysite.com/do.sos and serve a static page called index.html to the client.

Member Avatar for ShawnCplus

Especially with Apache directives like AddType and AddHandler, you can assign custom extensions.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .sos
AddHandler x-httpd-php .sos
Member Avatar for Oxiegen

If the database was to be openly accessible *shudder*, albeit with a username and password.
Then you can most likely access the database with javascript and odbc (jdbc?).
If that is the case then no server-side scripting would be needed.

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Hello guys,

Thanks for all the comments. I really appreciate it :)

Well, he's permitted the use of server side languages too.

Now, I've changed the topic to "comic superheroes" and plan to use php/mysql.

Can you take a look at this thread here ?
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread101980.html

Its in the php section.

Thanks

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