Help with Web Based Forms

I'm a Newbie, please help.

[brad05]

I'm trying to build a web application where the computer mainenance techs at my small company can use to log when and what they've done to the 20 computers on our server.

Here is a link to the Visual Concept (nothing works yet)
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I want the forms on the right to control the date on the left. ALSO, I want the green check icon to change to the red exclamation icon after a certain amount of time has passed, say, two months.

PLEASE tell me if all this is possible without CGI or PHP, and PLEASE point me in the right direction...

THANK YOU
Brad.

[edited by: tedster at 11:02 pm (utc) on June 28, 2005]

[j4mes]

A form controlling another is very simple in Javascript, but we'll need a little more info in what you want to control.

Your "time passed" question is a little harder, however, because that would require either:

1) The browser to stay open on that page for that length of time (two months) which seems unlikely.

or

2) The Javascript to be pre-coded for a certain date, which would require that users computers always have the right date (don't count on it!).

Also, it sounds like you want to *store* logs (is that right?) which Javascript really cannot do, unless it posts the logs to a script which can deal with it, but you say no scripting languages.

If at all possible I would really, *really* recommend trying to use a language like PHP (sorry, I know it isn't what you want to hear). Perhaps you can give some more detail on what you're trying to achieve and we'll see what Javascript can and can't do for you.

J.

[brad05]

thank you for your reply. this sheds some more light on the topic. I'll look in to PHP.

thanks again.

brad.