Hi. I've just downloaded a free version of DBMan reccomended to me by a mate as he said it was good for searches.

Now I am an idiot. I use frontpage to design my website, I am at the second from bottom rung on the webdesign ladder.

Does anyone know of an idiots guide to setting this thing up including explanations of scripting etc.

I want to use this to search a list of about 3000+ karaoke songs so the fields I need are "artist" "title" "karaoke code" and maybe "comments". (PS it is purely for use by myself and my friends)

a guide to getting it on my website would also be appreciated.

yours, Treacle from the UK

ps When i open the unzipped file I get icons which have that windows sign in it... If i want to open it I need to open it with some sort of application but I don't know if I should choose and application to open it with or which one!

Like I said I'm an idiot but everyone has to start somewhere!

Hi,

Untar the package on your hard disk and edit the deault.cfg file to respective information on your site. Afterall, update all file to your site.

Cheers,

Cheers,

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There's a great tutorial for DBMan at the following url:

http://www.jpdeni.com/dbman

It will guide you through the steps of setting up your database, and also contains a configurator which will setup your initial files an page layouts. Then you just need to modify them to suit your needs.

P.S. It's best to work in a text editor to modify your files.

You'll also find many tips and trick in the FAQ noted below.

Unoffical DBMan FAQ

http://creativecomputingweb.com/dbman/index.shtml/