Web Development Question

[-LiT- Killer_B]

Okay, so my company has told me to go ahead and finish out their "intranet" that the a previous individual has started. I am just about done, but I need a way of maintaining an employee contact list. Essentially we want the HR person to be able to add/delete and edit individuals as the come, go, or change info. We would also like to add a pic of the person. We need to accomplish this without the HR person having to get into the code. My first instincts were to set up an ASP page that is secured so that only the HR guy could use it and link a form to a database that housed all of the info/pictures. I did this sort of thing in an online store that I did in college. An administration side of the page where you could add/delete inventory and pictures of the inventory. If anybody has any other suggestions or advice I would be greatly appreciated.

[Multiplex]

You're on the right track. I myself am a PHP/MySQL guy because I think that PHP is a superior server side scripting language to ASP but in the end you can accomplish about the same thing with either one of them.

Set up the database, populate it with your contacts and take the opportunity to load the DB with tables which house other things you'd like to make changeable down the road. Setup an administrative control panel and then design a simple login/authentication system for the HR people to login through. Then build in the script snippets to select, insert, and update to the tables the information they're plugging into their HTML/XML forms.

The other way to do it is if you're using a UNIX environment for both the server and the clients and your users are familiar with working with it. You could write a couple of shell scripts which accept inputs so that your HR guys could insert or modify contacts through source files that you used an include(); to put into your site. So it would be as easy as running this from their xterm: "addcontact 'Joe Smoe'" and hit return. Simple multiused shell scripts could be added as well that allow you to do all of the basic tasks from an xterm via a simple menu system.

I dunno though I'm used to working in an environment where UNIX is used almost exclusively by both administrators and all of the users... If you're talking about using ASP you're probably in a Windows only environment. (Sorry to hear that.)

Hope that helped... if it didn't... oops.

[-LiT- Killer_B]

Thanks Multi, that helps to know that I'm walking down the right path...I can only wish we were operating in a UNIX platform. Once I take over for my boss as the Sys Admin, maybe I will do that...

-Any more suggestions/comments still welcome :thumbsup: