Web Programming

Web database programming has become one of the largest demands for custom applications that work on the Internet. These applications can be designed to work for the general public or for a private Intranet using the Internet. Shopping cart type applications can be built using custom designed databases and input forms.

One of the main features of having an application that works over the Internet is that the users can work from anywhere in the world. This make it very easy to set up employees to work from home or another office with very little overhead since all that is needed is a computer with a connection to the Internet and a browser.

The application is run on the web hosting computer using ASP (Active Server Pages) which are web pages that are dynamically created. The database interface uses ADO (ActiveX Database Objects, a Microsoft technology) to manipulate the data tables, record, and fields. These objects are tied together in HTML code which is generated by the ASP code to be sent the to user's browser for viewing and editing data remotely.

Surprisingly, if the server is running Windows 2000, the web software is included with this operating system for free using the name "IIS" (Internet Information Services). This software can implement the Frontpage extensions and ASP runtime which means that the application actually runs on the server and not on the users system or browser.

Field verification code for the input forms can be accomplished using JavaScript. Using this method reduces the communication time from the browser to the server over the Internet since the verification of input fields is done within the user's browser.

Virtually any type of application with any level of complexity can be created to work over the Internet. If you have existing data that you want to migrate into a new web application, you can do this if your existing applications allows you to export your data in CSV or any other standard exporting formats. Once this is done, a utility application could be designed to format the exported data into a structure that is suitable for import into the application's database structure and nothing is lost.

If you are interested in finding out more about web database applications, please call and we will be pleased to answer any question you may have.