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Access Project Problems

Here is my database situation:

Database Books:

Tables:
Books: book id (primary key), title, price, quantity, category
Students: ssn (primary key), name, email, password

What I am working on is an online bookstore project. I'm using MS Access 2000, 2003, and 2007 (depending on where I am). Basically, we need to be able to log them in compared to the information in the students table. The login information will be their ssn and password. We need also a registration page that'll take that information in and send it to the students table.

For the books, we need it to read from the books table and print out the books as well as price and quantity. There should be a way for them to click somewhere to order it..or something..this part evades me. I'm not quite sure how we should do this. We also need a way for books to be entered in, which would work like the registration page I imagine.

I'm simply looking for suggestions and ideas, especially on how to connect all this stuff. Our teacher doesn't give us really any help, and expects us to figure it out, and none of us can - which is about 10 people total. We've been trying for weeks, and I'm simply getting frustrated more and more with each thing I try.

Thanks!
[1319 byte] By [Zortania] at [2007-11-11 11:58:57]
# 1 Re: Access Project Problems
What are you going to develop your front end in?
Hack at 2007-11-11 23:42:36 >
# 2 Re: Access Project Problems
Up to now, we've developed most of the website in Frontpage. But, if we need to, we can use dreamweaver. None of us are just that familiar with it.

As far as coding, no clue. I haven't done ASP and PHP in years, and none of the rest of these guys have ever really had much experience with it.
Zortania at 2007-11-11 23:43:36 >
# 3 Re: Access Project Problems
No, FrontPage is fine. It really doesn't matter which as you are going to be using ASP anyway. (I know nothing about PHP)

Are you able to establish a connection to your database through your ASP page?
Hack at 2007-11-11 23:44:39 >