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BrianG · 03.25.2010, 04:27 PM

Triscuit:
The motor list is already pretty large so I hesitate to add more.

Aero:
A database-driven design would be perfect for this application except for two things:

A) I have not written much PHP (I'm an ASP developer). My server runs Apache with PHP. I could upgrade to an IIS/SQL server, but M$ stuff costs too much. Also, I'd have to take time to become proficient with PHP.

B) These pages would be limited to online use only. Not a big deal I guess since most people don't download and use it offline, but the capability is there to do so.

So, that leaves a client-side solution (data held in jscript multi-dimensional arrays) which requires me to hand-enter the data. As nice as it would be to partner up with someone to offer that level of data, I don't think it will happen soon.

You have to remember my whole site started with a simple one-page calc to estimate speed. It was primarily for me so I wouldn't have to mess with a calculator every time I wanted to mess with things, but I published it online in case others wanted to use it. Incidentally, this really started out as a program I wrote for the HP48GX calculator, but then ported it to Excel (mainly for GUI speed), then to HTML (so I can access it anywhere).

drkdgglr:
Sure, I'll add it to the next revision.

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	03.25.2010, 04:27 PM Triscuit: The motor list is already pretty large so I hesitate to add more. Aero: A database-driven design would be perfect for this application except for two things: A) I have not written much PHP (I'm an ASP developer). My server runs Apache with PHP. I could upgrade to an IIS/SQL server, but M$ stuff costs too much. Also, I'd have to take time to become proficient with PHP. B) These pages would be limited to online use only. Not a big deal I guess since most people don't download and use it offline, but the capability is there to do so. So, that leaves a client-side solution (data held in jscript multi-dimensional arrays) which requires me to hand-enter the data. As nice as it would be to partner up with someone to offer that level of data, I don't think it will happen soon. You have to remember my whole site started with a simple one-page calc to estimate speed. It was primarily for me so I wouldn't have to mess with a calculator every time I wanted to mess with things, but I published it online in case others wanted to use it. Incidentally, this really started out as a program I wrote for the HP48GX calculator, but then ported it to Excel (mainly for GUI speed), then to HTML (so I can access it anywhere). drkdgglr: Sure, I'll add it to the next revision.