Web-free forms?

[Barry]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out the best way to create a forms web page that would run on an opened browser, write the data collected to a .txt file, or data base, and do all this without being online.


If that does not make sense, this might explain better.
I currently have a lead collection website. Users log on, enter name and email address. They enter what they are looking for in a home, lead info gets emailed to me, blah, blah, blah. Nothing new.

What I want is to be able to open a version of that web page on my laptop, while holding open houses, without worrying about being connected to the web. Prospects would enter their info. Data would be written to a file on the lap top. Then, later that day I could manually enter the info. into my data base.

It sounds so easy. Any suggestions?

[rollholla]

If this site was written in PHP, you can download easyphp(free) and that will install mysql, php and apache on your pc so that you can run php/mysql scripts offline, using your own computer as a server. Assuming you have a copy of your website on your computer, you can use your laptop to connect to http://127.0.0.1 and your site would come up without being online.

[VRI]

If you're running XPPro or Windows 2000 you can do the same thing in asp. I'd probably just use an Acess DB, then just same your pages to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\foldername and access them via http://localhost/foldername

Obviously your connection strings would have to be local and you'd be using the relative path for forms/pages.

If you wanted it tomorrow and it didn't have to be too pretty you could just create a form in Access to collect the info.