I'm currently trying to find a web based database for my site to allow people who design vehicles for a game to enter their vehicles ID number, a description of the vehicle, a small image of the vehicle and a link to a ZIP formatted file so that folks who visit my site can look through the database and download the designers vehicles.

My questions are:
1. Does this database allow for a user to enter in an ID# even though it may be the same as another vehicles #?
2. Can a user insert...their name and link an email address to it, a small description, an image with a link to a downloadable zip file...?
3. Can a moderator/admin then insert a page link to the output html for a "rating" of the vehicle?
4. Does the database use a text-based db file that could be called from an offline program to check the ID tag and name?

Sorry for the odd questions, but I don't want to waste anyones time if it's not possible.

If it is possible to do, would it require heavy modification to the html.pl? (I saw this on another thread on here)

 
Yes, as long as you have another field which would be a unique identifier for the record.


Yes, except for the image, if you want it uploaded. I have written a mod for file upload, and some people have had success with it. Others have not.

All of this would require you do define your own record display. The autogenerate feature would not give you what you want.


I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you explain a little more?


Yes. The .db file is a flat-file text-based file, delimited by whatever character you choose.


Quite a bit. But it's not too hard once you see the patterns and we'll help you if you need it.


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JPD

DBMan is probably as close to 'out-of-the-box' ready as you will find available. Before dbman I knew very little about perl but it is documented very well and there is plenty of quick help available at this forum. As far as your modification question goes I don't think that you can expect to have a custom application without a fair bit of modification and as I mentioned dbman is easy to work with and there is lots of support.

Mike

P.S. I have used JP's image upload mod and it worked well for me.