Re: e-publishing a catalogue

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Ricardo--

 At first I assumed that your domain xen.org had something to do with 
Xen the virtual machine technology.  Haha, I was surprised that MySql 
and PHP didn't occur to you immediately.  :-)  Anyway, I am not a web 
programmer, but I've read some books about it so I'm going to suggest 
the following:

Try and find out what databases and query languages are available on all 
three platforms, and then browse some books looking for code examples 
that handles the tasks you're talking about.  I'm pretty sure that the 
free MySQL database software is available on all three platforms, and I 
imagine that the PHP high-level scripting language is too.  When you 
find a book that shows you how to import the snapshot into MySQL, and 
query it with PHP, and return the results to a web page, you'll be well 
on the way to getting it done. 
 
 
Good luck and have virtual fun.

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
 

Lauren wrote:
> Can't you just build a web interface for it and put a search engine, like
> Google that lets you limit the search to the specific site, in the web
> interface?
>
> Lauren 
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com 
>> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On 
>> Behalf Of Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team
>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:49 AM
>> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: e-publishing a catalogue
>>
>> Hi all out there,
>>  
>> I have been asked to distribute a database on a CD together 
>> with a search interface/application. The data are now 
>> contained in a Word file.
>>  
>> This CD is intended to distribute a snapshot of the main 
>> database among a group of users sitting at Windows, Linux and 
>> Mac boxes. 
>   

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