On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:15:23 -0500, P E Schoen wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message
> news:ijnd59$fci$1(at)news(dot)eternal-september(dot)org...
>
>> You can't. Such a link is local to the browser; no request is
>> made to the server.
>
>> As others have told you - you need a browser-side solution.
>> That is not PHP.
>
> I would think a server-side database would be most appropriate for this. The
> potential amount of information may be several hundred megabytes, while the
> information to be presented to the viewer in the browser is only a few
> kilobytes, or a bit more if images or sound clips are included. That's why I
> had suggested PHP and an SQLite (or MySQL) database on the server.
>
> Here is a website page that is similar to what richard is doing:
> http://www.oldies.com/artist/browse.cfm/decade_1960.html
>
> It appears that this is organized with a separate web page for each decade
> and/or the starting letter of the artist, and finally presented as
> individual web pages for each artist. Since the website for just Roy Acuff,
> for example, is 2173 lines of HTML with a lot of excess blank lines, I think
> these web pages may be generated dynamically, rather than static. Here's
> that example:
> http://www.oldies.com/artist-view/Roy-Acuff.html
>
> This particular site is especially amazing for its ability to show songs and
> artists from decades far in the future.
> http://www.oldies.com/artist/browse.cfm/decade_2430.html
> http://www.oldies.com/artist/browse.cfm/decade_5350.html
>
> Kind of like Zager and Evans' "In The Year 2525"! (and not in the oldies
> list above)
>
>
> Paul
that site is not even close to mine. They basically give you "bio" of the
various artists. Even though the tab might say "1960", you get a list of
every performer they have a bio on regardless of the decade.
They seem to be more of in the business of selling albums and CD's.
I haven't found a site yet that lists ALL of the songs for a given year in
the sixties.
Top 100 and #1 sites are a dime a dozen.
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