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?

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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.

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.

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