Hello All. I just downloaded the software so am very new yet -- so bear with me. ;-)

I have a site in horse racing, and I wanted to use this database to pull up horses' race records. To do this, I would need my information entered to go into tables as such:

Age Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings
2 4 2 2 0 $ 56,280
3 10 9 0 1 $ 684,800
4 9 5 3 1 $ 590,420
23 16 5 2 $1,331,500

I'd also be including the horse's name, sex, year of birth, dam and sire, though those could all be on separate lines if need be. I'd also like to include an area to list career highlights. Is this possible, and can you direct me towards a site who's implemented a similar setup? I am proficient in HTML but not perl, and am appreciative of any help I can get to obtain this set up without pulling out too much of my hair.

Thanks!

Victoria ;-)

Hi Victoria, I'm sure you could do this - someone has done a db which includes equine pedigrees. Try searching the forum for user knutsonj

Perhaps you could get some feedback from Jennifer on the project she had done.

Good luck :-)

I did a search but the address she gives is no longer valid. I'll hope she (or someone else who can help me) will see this post.

Thanks for your help...

Victoria ;-)

I am not doing horses, but my db structure will probably work. I have just installed dbman in a relational database structure. There is some excellent discussion here on how to do this type of install. Another great resource is http://www.jpdeni.com She also has a zip version available at http://www.jpdeni.com/relation.zip. One more resource no dbman installer should be without is http://webmagic.hypermart.net/dbman/Is the unofficial faq page for dbman

I hope these get you off and running. They certainly were a help to me.

Dale