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Dear sir,

I have Opus PRO 04.
I am trying to understand how to make a Web publication read from and write to a database which is on a server.

I have read the documentation and tried some things in the past with PERL.

I am pasting below text from Opus PRO help file:


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The Post Web Data action allows you to send and/or receive data from a remote Server – information is sent or received using variables. In other words, you can send and receive information across the Internet. For example, you could send quiz score results from your publication to a Server; so all results from tests could be centrally stored. Alternatively, you could receive data from a Server into your publication, such as the latest price list, which means you don’t have to republish a new version of your publication every time prices are changed.

Note:

This action is used when you intend to publish to the web or use Opus Flex. This action and the Database actions are the only ways in which you can send and receive information over the web in Opus as you are not allowed to create or read information in text files over the web for security reasons.

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The text I have marked in bold implies that you can use the database actions to read and write to a web database...without a script?

Can someone please clarify this?

Also, except PERL, where can I find any examples in ASP or PHP to see how to communicate with databases?

Any tool/software that could help me in easily creating the scripting part of an opus web enabled publication?

Many thanks

Dennis Zervas

Dennis ,

Please take a look at :


viewforum.php?f=13

Here you will find a selection of tutorial on how to read and write data to a database on a webserver.

Regards

Brenden Knifton