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Originally Posted by canadiancreed
that's the part that I was suggesting to change. the html generation when you coudl use a perl, php, asp, what have you to get teh information from the DB as opposed to the gerernation of so many files.
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Yeah, I looked into this as well, but if you look at the tables you will see that a lot of the data created for the html pages is calculated in the VB program and not stored into tables and is recreated every season. It would be nice to have the database restructured so that other programs could just do a read/write operation rather than all the calcs and I/O that is currently being done with the current MDB file. Also, would like to see that if a page is not required to be changed that the program would not recreate every page as it currently does.
I was looking at maybe rewriting this program. I am a programmer but I do RPG on the AS/400, XML and DEC VAX C/COBOL for my REAL JOB as a consultant. But I did get my HTML/VB certification and have used Visual Studio to create programs at home and for other small businesses(Using C, Delphi, VB and COBOL). I have hinted on the board that I would love to get CATO's code and re-write this. I only wish I knew what the status of Jeff Cato was and if he is going to keep upgrading and maintaining the program. I hope so - but my gut tells me that he may not. I hope I am wrong...