Re: Porting data to a web page

Douglas W. Palme wrote:

To be a bit more specific, what we want to do is display an html page with update information, IE: load information on a state by state basis; IE: how many loads are available in that state.

If it was just static itself and never changed, I could just create it using notepad, but since it has to include some information from a LF that won't work.

If you think the example you have will do that I would love to see it....at least that will get me started in the right direction......

Douglas


On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:55:46 -0700, Tony Carolla wrote

Hello Doug

On 6/29/05, Douglas W. Palme <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If anyone has any decent websites or online tutorials that can assist me

with porting some data to a webpage I would appreciate it if you would share it with me, so far what I have found on IBM's site is either 1. not

really

applicable, or 2. calls for the WDS advanced client which we do not have.

We will be running the iSeries web server for this project.

It really depends on what you want to do. Outputting non-interactive web pages to the IFS can be done with straight RPG. You can basically build the HTML specs using data structures, which usually contain one or more <TABLE> defs, and write them to an IFS file. I have a somewhat generic example I can send you if this is your aim.

If you are looking to interact with users, you can use the CGIDEV2 library. This would allow interacting with a user through a web browser. Details, and the library can be found at http://www-

922.ibm.com/en .

Also, if you want to take existing RPG programs that use display files, and have them show up in a web browser window, without re- coding anything, there is the webfacing tool. It allows you to generate java server pages for your display files, and it will call your program and interact with the web browser so that your program thinks it is a display file. Details on this can be found at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/about/webfacing.html .

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