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Accessing a DBF from a webpage
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20/08/1999 11:16:35
Vernon Moeller
Texas Adjutant General's Department
Austin, Texas, United States
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Title:
Accessing a DBF from a webpage
Miscellaneous
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00255882
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00255882
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I'm developing a website for my State agency's division. My new boss is also the head guy for Human Resources here, and he wants to put our job openings on the website. I figure this is a great DBF application, but my boss won't send me to VFP school, so I am still using FPW2.6. Any ideas how to let users come into our website and look at job announcements?

This is the way I want to do it: the user clicks on a button which goes to our job opening DBF and runs a report to the screen, showing all the job openings, with each job's ID no, job title, location (we advertise jobs all over the state), starting salary range and closing date. Here's an example:

ID No: 99-52 Title: Stock and Inventory Supervisor I
Location: Ellington Field, Houston Starting Salary: $1936-2489
Closing Date: Open until filled

Clicking on the Id No would display a complete job announcement, which in turn is a single record in a large DBF (large because of the numerous memo fields).

The job announcement DBF would be read-only for the users, but could be adjusted by the Human Resources Clerk, a nice guy who absolutely hates FoxPro, so of course, I *have* to do it in FPW just to get his goat. I may end up having to translate it to Access, but that's just additional job security.

Any ideas on where I should start with such a project? I've already designed the job announcement DBF and entered a sample record. Do you think that I should use a report form to list the contents of one Job-Anncmt record, or should I use a screen since it's just for one record? I haven't worked with printing memo fields before, so I'm not sure how to handle them since they can be nearly any size.

Any help is much appreciated!

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