Sesame-database on your website?

Is it possible to place a sesame-database on a website-server?

Or

Only the   HTML-page's?

I've not found it in the user guide.

John

I for one would be interested in a CGI interface or a PHP one. How will Lantica marketing determine if there is a demand?

Thanks for your help!

Hi Lantican and fellow members

On the issue of websites - there is not much documented in the Sesame literature on linking with websites other then running sesame through a website as is described above and some information on printing to html files.

There is mention in the user manual that should a Sesame field contain "hyperlink" and a report is printed to html then that hyperlink will appear on the htm file.

I am most likely still doing something wrong, but I can't seem to get that to functionas I want.

In short what I am trying to achieve is the following:-

I have setup a database with a subform - my main database will only have about 40 odd records, which I will "print" to specific html file and  to which I have already created hyperlinks in my webpage - My wish is to keep adding more information on the subform each which contains a hyperlink to a specific webpage.
Once I have captured the data, I use a macro to print the document to html and name it appropriately - This aspect works perfectly except for the fact that the URL is shown but not as a hyper link - this I need for visitors on my website to click on to take them to a more detailed page on my website.

I also tried the approach of used a table report, but still no hyperlink on my html file.

I did this in the past with Q&A by creating 40 very lenthly reports which also added the html coding and then running a macro to update the html files when data has changed.

Any idea as to how I can print my html forms to include these hyperlinks - Ideally just printing the record with its sub-form is the easiest and less painfull.

thanks for a wonderful forum - I have really picked up some excellent tips here

   Thanks for your help there Ray - I did a basic test on that and it works spot on in a report.

I have however tried the same thing by just printing the record to html but that does not give me the same effect.

My hyperlink field end up <A HREF =  and does not show the rest - this is obviously because of the inverted comma's { " } ending the statement confuses the html code somewhat. The reason I am trying this method is because it makes it much easier to use my database with a subform,  but with a bit of effort I am sure I can also do what I need to with reports

thanks again

Given that the inverted quotes are taken care of, creating a fully qualified URL link may well be done using SBasic from within the report or the "source" form. That way it doesn't have to appear in a field.