# Linking Database to HTML
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [September 23, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166 "2004-09-23T15:43:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@govinda](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/govinda)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166/1 "2004-09-23T15:43:14Z")
Is it a true statement, that content stored in a database CANNOT be pulled into an HTML page?
I thought that only ASP could do that.
thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me!
govinda
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166/2 "2004-09-23T17:32:13Z")
If it’s stored in a DB, like a SQL DB, you need something that’s able to parse that info like, CF, PHP, ASP, CGI, even JS… but it’s can’t be done w/ standard coding… not to my knowledge anyway.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166/3 "2004-09-23T20:29:24Z")
Hmmm…what if the database is an MS Access Database. Can I program a website to pull into html from a MS access database. Someone I know is trying to tell me that it CAN be done, and I have NEVER seen it. They don’t believe me, so I wanted to get some second opinions…_sigh_ some people don’t give me credit…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166/4 "2004-09-23T21:16:00Z")
I could be wrong about this but I’m pretty sure that Access is ASP. IDK… I’m not much of a backend person, I’m much more of a clientside person.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166/5 "2004-09-23T21:24:01Z")
> [@govinda](#):
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> Hmmm…what if the database is an MS Access Database. Can I program a website to pull into html from a MS access database. Someone I know is trying to tell me that it CAN be done, and I have NEVER seen it. They don’t believe me, so I wanted to get some second opinions…_sigh_ some people don’t give me credit…
You can use PHP, Coldfusion or ASP to generate the data and then display in **within** HTML.
You cannot do this by just using .html extensions. You must use either ASP, PHP, or Coldfusion.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-database-to-html/65166/6 "2004-09-24T17:02:12Z")
If you want to get fancy smancy you can also use XSLT and XML. But they are right html by itself will not get the job done.