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coolb3774
03-03-2008, 02:59 PM
Hi,

I'm fairly new to web development and was looking for the advice/opinions of some veterans to the game.

I'm trying to create a website that can store objects as well as characteristics of said objects but also be able to compare and contrast the objects. For example:

If a user types in the characteristics of a bird, the the site runs through the database and finds the bird that is the closest match to the users input. As well as a numerical value referring to how close the match is IE:"90%, 76%, 20%, etc."

Any help or questions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

*edit: I misspelled the title, ha.

ray326
03-03-2008, 11:53 PM
Well it basically comes down to how many parameters need to be compared and possibly how much weight to assign to each parameter.