Posted by Geoff Berrow on 10/04/06 14:36

Message-ID: <fqOUg.189189$QM6.88255@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
from sk contained the following:

> 1. enter data using forms
> 2. do lookup using form that will display council persons or
>committees.. user will be able to select one and the system will display
>either the council people on committee or the committees that the
>council person is on.

You'd need three tables for this, council members, committees and a link
table.
>
>There will be more but right now I am working on the lookup portion.
>Would I use php to do sql select from either database and then 'somehow'
>put that into an html/xhtml select function? If that is the direction
>how do I take that select function to get one entry back to the
>database? etc? etc?

I don't get the impression that your knowledge of php and mysql is that
great. It's all fairly straightforward but not exactly a beginner's
project.

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