Databasing Clients

programming
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Hey everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with something or atleast point me in the right direction.

Heres what I need some input on:

I recently landed a big web site for a recruiting company and they requested a database of some sort that would allow a members section with the ability to add new members and must be able to log-in.

here is more detail of what exactly I would like to be able to do:

Ability for clients to sign-up to become a site member.
Members’ ability to search for listings.
Members’ ability to submit resumes.
Members’ ability to fill out applications.
Your ability to view the above either via email or online.

I have friends that can do this but I would like to find out a lil bit on my own if at all possible.

any help is greatly appriciated.

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you will need .php but i have no idea how to do this

try to find electrongeek or someone who is on here alot

they know loads

sorry i can’t help more but i look for a tutorial for you(-:

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thanks alot chris, i will wait for a reply from one of them.

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PHP, ASP and ColdFusion are all options for scripting languages to use for communicating with the database. That database can be MS Access, MySQL, Dbase, Oracle, etc. It all depends on what is supported by the clients web host. That is your starting point.

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Yep. See what language suits you the most. I would reccomend a PHP/mySQL backend. Then you’ll probably need to set up a table with all the members in it(including clients) plus their privilages. The rest would be making queries and stuff like that. :slight_smile:

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Your description is missing a lot of details!
-what’s the frontend, flash or html?
-which language to communicate with the db?
-who is adding the members, does that happen as soon as they sign up, or is it admin work?
-“search for listings” -> what kinda listings?
-“view the above via e-mail” : you’ll have to extract values from the db and then mail them, but how, does anyone have access to anything
…etc…
Where do you wanna start?
good luck :wink:

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first off i wanna say thanks for taking the time to look my post.

sorry bout the lack of details. The main reason for leaving some of those details out was im not sure which would be the best program(s) to use. I know some flash and have a very good understanding of html.

so to answer eyezberg:

Flash or html will do. (which do you think would be the better option?)

as for the language I have no idea which to choose ahmed and abzoid made some good suggestions which i will further research such as PHP and MySQL.

for adding the members I would like to have it add them automatically when they sign up if possible. Any suggestions on that?

The listings would be a listing for jobs, which would be entered by me. (this isn’t as important as the rest)

anyone know any good sites that I can check out for help on this issue?

Once agian thanks for all of your time and hopefully this thread is a little bit more specific.

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I personally would use HTML, PHP and mySQL. using these languages together is very easy. You could use Flash, but its not necessary… Flash would just be used to make it “pretty”