[CQ-Contest] World Contest Station Database - programming helop needed

[Pete Smith]

Now that the WCSD is back alive again, I'm looking to make some
improvements.  One, in particular, is the form that captures information
submitted by a user and forwards it to a text file.  Periodically I use the
text file to update the database.

As the form now stands, it is just a bunch of spaces to be filled
in.  When submitted, it sends the information to a text file, which I 
download and use to update the database offline.

I am no programmer, so I used Microsoft Front Page, a Microsoft Access 
database, and Active Server Pages to set up the various queries and to 
return data to the user.  Ideally, when someone already has a record in the 
database, the form
should be filled in with the existing information, so that it need only be 
edited and then saved to the file.  I'm sure this is probably trivial for 
someone who understands how forms interact with an Access database, but 
that's where I run out of ideas.  I'd also like to test the idea of 
providing for direct updating of the database, because that would save a 
lot of time.  Again, I have no idea how to do it.

A number of people have suggested that translating the database and the 
queries to work under PHP and MySQL.  Fine, except that I don't know how to 
do that, and it doesn't seem very time-effective to learn,m with everything 
else I have going on.

Anyone willing to help?  I'll be happy to send you the existing pages to 
work with, as well as the database.

73, Pete N4ZR
the World Contest Station Database is back...
www.conteststations.com