Forms on the web

tumby1974 · Post by **tumby1974** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:48 pm

Can you use forms in a web-based environment? Users opening up their browser and going to an intranet site where they can use forms to manipulate/view data in a database?

Hungarian forum · Post by **r4zoli** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:30 pm

OOo Base a standalone database for one user, or frontend file with a Form connected to the database server - can be used by more user, user rights managed by database server.

Use php for web-based environments.

shallowz · Post by **shallowz** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:40 pm

i am also looking to find out if you can make a web based intranet web form for my company
is there a way to set up a form using Base so users can look at a web page and fill out a form?
i do not understand the reply from R4ZOLI

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:12 am

Apart from very primitive HTML and export to XHTML, OOo has no capabilities to create content for the internet. It follows the old document paradigma where certain files are loaded into a suitable application with many features related to human language, layout on paper and formatting. A "real database" (not Base) is just a storage on some machine which can be accessed with all kinds of suitable software, such as Base.
This forum is stored in a "real database" (see Postgre-SQL label at the bottom). Every time you click a link, a script generates a web-page from HTML-templates filled with data from the database (e.g. recent posts) and delivers the resulting page back to your browser. One could access the underlying database in Base, but the required modules to create web-forms that work with any browser in the world is extremely different. Technically, it has almost nothing to do with a document based software.

shallowz · Post by **shallowz** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:32 pm

wow is all i acan say Villeroy
i have no idea what you just said, i can tell you know what your talking about
so i am guessing that you said it is not possible to get base to function the way i want it?

Hungarian forum · Post by **r4zoli** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:04 pm

You can not make any form with OOo, usable in webpage.

Post by **QuazzieEvil** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:34 pm

you can use JavaScript and ActiveX to connect to OOo. There is alot of work reuired, however, to get something going. I have not done any large scale tests, so I do not know how it performs in such environment. I have some samples at www.baseprogramming.com/resources.html

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