Re: Experience with creating real dynamic solutions??????
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texte = I'm way past bgcolor, headlines solutiuons.....I have written an example what i want to do: Thanx for the quick reply, but i am allready way past that type of dynamic creations.....What i want is that you would might choose how many frames your solution should contain, and what should the content of each frame be,,,,, then WC should look how many frames you want, and look what you want inside each frame, then take info from anotherfile, that makes the content of the frames look like what you want, and then create all the files and the code.Example, maybe you want 2 framesin your first you want your logo + seperator line and then your menu, (which is dynamically created links, stored in a content database).You want the logo to be aligned to the right, and to the bottom.. You should only define what the name of the logo is.....in the second frame, you would probably want a welcome page, then chose what you wnat on your welcome page, and alignment etc.....That means, what i want to create is a sort of wysiwyg html editor, that automatically embeds different modules like a shoppingfeature......Confused????Well, thats true dynamic webcreation ;-)Furthermore i want to keep out of javascript and or javaI feel convinced that i can do it with WebCatalog, however it's a heavy project.My problem is not to use a userinput to get something from one or more databases, and then write the files. The problem is when you have to think about two things..1. what is possible to choose, and how to control that all the chosen items can have unique options and then do the right lookups in a db, which again should link to another db, (which is dynamically created much earlier) 2. the second thing is to take dynamic info from one database, then change some of the information, then apply step 1/Martin >At 15:27 Uhr 10.10.1998, Martin Gertz Bech wrote: > >>Im working on writing a solution that makes a person able to create a nice >>looking site without writing any HTML code at all. > > >We did a similar thing with NetForms some time ago. Since there are no >database functions it was merely simple. Afterwards I started with 4D but >dropped the project due the lack of time... > >You have to preconfigure all html-functions you want and store them in a >database. From this pool the user can select the different functions and >you keep track of what he has done on a record-by-record basis. After the >user has finished you can write all to one html file if you want. >It is possible and can be done with any web-fit database. I believe the >real problem will not be database programming itself, but the user >interface in the browser. > >Try to start with a small solution, just background color, headlines, >blocks of text and you will soon see what I am talking about. > > >Peter > >__________________________________________ >Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com >Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions >Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria >fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Konsulentfirmaet Bech.dk Dynamic HTML, WebDNA programming, Lasso & Filemaker Pro developement
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I'm way past bgcolor, headlines solutiuons.....I have written an example what i want to do: Thanx for the quick reply, but i am allready way past that type of dynamic creations.....What i want is that you would might choose how many frames your solution should contain, and what should the content of each frame be,,,,, then WC should look how many frames you want, and look what you want inside each frame, then take info from anotherfile, that makes the content of the frames look like what you want, and then create all the files and the code.Example, maybe you want 2 framesin your first you want your logo + seperator line and then your menu, (which is dynamically created links, stored in a content database).You want the logo to be aligned to the right, and to the bottom.. You should only define what the name of the logo is.....in the second frame, you would probably want a welcome page, then chose what you wnat on your welcome page, and alignment etc.....That means, what i want to create is a sort of wysiwyg html editor, that automatically embeds different modules like a shoppingfeature......Confused????Well, thats true dynamic webcreation ;-)Furthermore i want to keep out of javascript and or javaI feel convinced that i can do it with WebCatalog, however it's a heavy project.My problem is not to use a userinput to get something from one or more databases, and then write the files. The problem is when you have to think about two things..1. what is possible to choose, and how to control that all the chosen items can have unique options and then do the right lookups in a db, which again should link to another db, (which is dynamically created much earlier) 2. the second thing is to take dynamic info from one database, then change some of the information, then apply step 1/Martin >At 15:27 Uhr 10.10.1998, Martin Gertz Bech wrote: > >>Im working on writing a solution that makes a person able to create a nice >>looking site without writing any HTML code at all. > > >We did a similar thing with NetForms some time ago. Since there are no >database functions it was merely simple. Afterwards I started with 4D but >dropped the project due the lack of time... > >You have to preconfigure all html-functions you want and store them in a >database. From this pool the user can select the different functions and >you keep track of what he has done on a record-by-record basis. After the >user has finished you can write all to one html file if you want. >It is possible and can be done with any web-fit database. I believe the >real problem will not be database programming itself, but the user >interface in the browser. > >Try to start with a small solution, just background color, headlines, >blocks of text and you will soon see what I am talking about. > > >Peter > >__________________________________________ >Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com >Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions >Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria >fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Konsulentfirmaet Bech.dk Dynamic HTML, WebDNA programming, Lasso & Filemaker Pro developement
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