Looking for help to develop data search form

Question

I have built a SQL Query that produces a data set of
approximately 60,000 records which includes last_names,
First_names, ID_numbers, Office_Names, Association_Names, and
Member_Type fields. I have created a table that displays ten
records at a time (in alphabetical order by last, first name). I
want to (1) be able to search for a specific person in the dataset,
and then once I find him/her, (2) be able to click on their
ID_Number to select it and then go to another page with their
ID_Number.
I have not been able to find documentation on conducting
searches of datasets. I am using classic ASP for server side
scripting (though I am brand new at this).
Any assistance you might be able to provide will be most
gratefully appreciated.
Thanks very much,
Austin

Answer 1

> Thank you Murray for your kind response. I am not
entirely sure how to do
> this. I suspect if I create a simple form with First and
Last Name Fields
> and
> a Submit button and then POST the content of that form
to a 'processor'
> page
> this is a good place to start???????
That would surely work.
> But I am not entirely sure how to insert those two items
into the query on
> the
> processor page. Can you point me to any documentation or
tutorial that
> might
> help me along with this?
The search form posts its results to the processor page. The
processor page
retrieves those form values from the $_POST array, and uses
them to
formulate a new SQL SELECT statement, identical to the old
one, except with
the inclusion of the first and last name values from the
$_POST array in the
WHERE statement.
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> Thank you Murray for your kind response. I am not
entirely sure how to do
> this. I suspect if I create a simple form with First and
Last Name Fields
> and
> a Submit button and then POST the content of that form
to a 'processor'
> page
> this is a good place to start???????
>
> But I am not entirely sure how to insert those two items
into the query on
> the
> processor page. Can you point me to any documentation or
tutorial that
> might
> help me along with this?
>
> I am sorry to be such a bother with this. I have a
handful of books, but
> none
> of them touch on this and I am at a loss.
>
> Thanks again for your kind helpfulness.
>
> Austin
>