> | 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.
I think that you might have missed the point :-(
It is not the site(s) themselves but how the information is accessed
and presented.
What you are proposing with your site is very limited in user
usefulness/friendliness.
Having the information within a database will allow flexibility in
accessing and presenting. Also maintenance and expandability of the
information will be a lot easier.
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