DHTML and Database Fun

I had a fun, quick project over the last few days: take school statistics and test scores and create a searchable database for the Denver Post. You can see the results in any news story that the Post is running about the current CSAP scores. A direct link to only the application is here.
I used PHP/MySQL for the backend, parsing some large Excel spreadsheets to get at the data. Then I created a front-end that combines JavaScript and PHP. I used the currently-popular “XMLHttpRequest” and “innerHTML” JavaScript tricks to make plain HTML seem more alive. I’ve done a lot of projects with these techniques, but never one so visible.

August 2, 2005 • Posted in: General

3 Responses to “DHTML and Database Fun”

  1. yochai - August 3, 2005

    Looking forward to see the project. however, this is the response I’m getting:
    “The content item you have requested is no longer available”.

    Yochai

  2. Gary Rosenzweig - August 3, 2005

    Looks like the Post changes their URLs sometimes. I adjusted the article accordingly so there is a working link.

  3. aschristian2512 - August 5, 2005

    exciting

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