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ryani210693
05-16-2007, 03:54 PM
Hi there.

Just to give a backgorund of where this will be used, it is for Radio City in Liverpool (UK radio station of the year 2007). So big stuff!

It will be used for what we already have in use, which is using frontpage, the person answering phones for the sport football phone-in, we key in the caller name, where they are from and what they want to talk about into a frontpage auto refresh we have, which refreshes every couple of seconds in the main on air studio. So we key in the details, it refreshes in the studio and can see what caller is there.

What we would like to do now is to have someway of auto adding the data into a database on auto refresh when it detects new information ahs been keyed in, and it adds each field into microsoft access. So this keeps a database of callers that have gone onto the show for future usage.

Is there any kind of way this is possible even just adding the caller into a new frontpage page automatically, maybe not access? Access would be easier, but is it possible at all?

I was thinking along the lines of "on refresh, detect new info, detect fields, add new info into database".

Hope you can help for this major project for such a major station! thanks, Ryan.

ray326
05-16-2007, 11:31 PM
The data entered should be stored in the database (a real one, not Access) and the page used in the studio should be using that database to build the page.

ryani210693
05-17-2007, 11:49 AM
What databse do you mean...excel?

Kevey
05-17-2007, 01:07 PM
I am guessing MySQL or MS SQL.

ryani210693
05-17-2007, 01:08 PM
Too complex for the simplicity this neess to eb...all it is, is the computers in the builidngs being networked. If you get me :s

ray326
05-17-2007, 02:08 PM
Actually it's ridiculously trivial. Get yourself a Ruby on Rails hacker and she'll have it up and running in less than an hour. The hardest part is deciding what fields you'd need in the single table that would hold the data and that's about five minutes. So 30 minutes to install ruby/rails/web server/MySQL, 5 minutes to set up the database and a whole 25 minutes to do the rest.

ryani210693
05-17-2007, 02:10 PM
I see...i'll research all this stuff, see what comes up.

thanks for the help, Ryan.