Saving Info to A file
Hi All,
Wondering if someone can make a suggestion.
I have a sort of telemarketing situation and I need someway to save the telephone numbers of the people and businesses that I contact so that I am not calling the same people over again. Sort of like a text box entry thing where when I type in the first few numbers if the number has been entered B4 it will come up and I will know not to call that number again. At some point I will probably want to expand that to include Names as well or something like that. Any ideas? I am all ears!
I know there is an quick and easy solution for this out there, I just have not thought of it.
Thanks
NYcolt
Chroder posted this at 20:56 — 5th March 2004.
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If you've got a server-side programming language at your fingertips (ASP, PHP, Perl) then you could use that to write/search to the files. If you want, I'll whip one up for you if I've got time (in PHP).
The thing with flat-file (writing everything to a file) is it'll get slow after you've got a large amount of data in it. But I wouldn't worry too much, some message boards were (still?) run off of flat-files
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NYColt posted this at 21:07 — 5th March 2004.
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Thank you very much for the offer!
I appreciate that.
Actually someone suggested that I use an address book script which I downloaded from hotscripts.com and that works great! It allows me to keep track of who I have called by # but it also alows me to enter data about each contact and to categorize each contact like "interested" "not Interested" "No answer" and so on.
Again thanks for the offer! That was kind of you.
NYColt
Chroder posted this at 21:10 — 5th March 2004.
He has: 91 posts
Joined: Mar 2004
Never thought of using a addy book
Nice improvise 
Good luck
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