hey whats up
i am throwing this party and gonna have a laptop at the door to get the email address of the people getting in.
something like a java program that has one input field and when they press save it clears the input field and saves the email address in a txt file so the next person can type in their email. i need security so i dont want to put it in excel .. some one might delete the whole list.
do you think java would be the best choice ?
java, c, perl, php, python... pick your poison
You could make a simple web page with a form that emails their email address to you upon submit and then clears the form. People could hit "back" to see previous entries, but they couldn't delete them.
-The nerd formerly known as vectorcalculus
I assume that you mean "basically secure". Just saving it to a plain text file on the hard drive ok?
Java's probably kind of overkill, but if it's for a learning experience, then it'd probably be fun.
Personally, I think I'd just have a locked box with a hole cut in it for people to stuff little pieces of paper in it... wouldn't want 100's of people touching my laptop
there is no internet access at the placeOriginally Posted by MrGreg
and by secure i mean i dont want any one pressing atl A then del
and everything goes away...
its soooo basic but complicated at same time.. grrrr
i dunno too much about this stuff (altho i should) but what about having that laptop connected to another computer in the house, and having it upload the data to a write-only file on there... kinda like the internet thing... without the internet.
(gawd i feel like a moron having taken php, javascript, and database concepts classes and still not knowing about it hehe)
HEY LOOK WHO'S IN MY SIG!
umm, you dont HAVE to have internet access. If you want to go the web route than run a server on your own computer.
This is a really simple problem that your overcomplicating
grrr you dont think thats much more harder than a program in java ?
install all that stuff ... :-S
so my best bet would be run a server myself ?
you are having a party and putting a laptop by the door. i would be more worried about theft than email addresses
You can create a simple web form that will do this for you. Then start IE in kiosk mode with the web page up and you are ready to go. You do not actually have to 'run' a web server, the file can just be on your hard drive and when you launch IE in kiosk mode you just type in iexplore -k filename.html and you are all set.
Hell, the web page is just a simple form with one field that can append the post data to a flat file via VB or you could get even easier and have it call a batch file that does the same. I could put this together for you in no time at all if you want. Just PM me the text that you want on the page.
---edit: I was a bit bored, already wrote something that you may be able to use. PM me and I will send it to you.
Last edited by Dman33; 05-06-2005 at 09:51 AM.
Why use use MS Access? you can create an MBD with just one form that would allow people to enter it in. No mess, and secure. You can hide all the tool bars and editing options too. Just a thought.
well its more like a club to a party . there will be security at the door, besides its not like im gonna take my new laptop 200mhz is fine ..
pm sent
huh? i never got a pm from you
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