On Sep 21, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Zeth Lietzau wrote:
Hi all,
I've developed a web site where users complete a web form which
pushes their
data into a MySQL database. At the back end they can run reports of
their
input from this database. At the high end, users enter input into
the form a
few hundred times a day. Our site has about 99% uptime, but users
have been
asking for the development of a local version for them to use
during the 1%
downtime. Basically, I need to recreate the form so that upon
submission is
writes the data to a file on the users machine, which can then be
uploaded
to the site when it's back up. Does anyone have any resources that
I could
use to get started with this?
You can't write to the local machine without using activex or a java
applet (maybe flash or silverlight will allow it as well, not sure).
Your browser won't allow it.
Even if you could, your form is still on your webserver - which is
unavailable anyway.
You can write to the web server filesystem and then have that file
for download, but that still requires the website working.
I don't have any suggestions about how to get around those, all I
can think of is the client either installs it locally on their
desktop (using WAMP if they are on windows for easy apache/php/mysql
installs) or provide a version they can run on one of their own
servers in-house.
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This sounds like a job for AIR. You can pass back the data as XML for
the initial load into the local SQLlite db. Then periodically add to
it throughput the day. All the processing will need to be handled by
either the db or JS.
The local db can also be loaded and then synced up to the master when
needed
Bastien
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