Putting Together the Software Pieces

The last couple of weeks have been exciting for our team! The database group successfully uploaded a database of 49 plants to the web server using MySQL. The database uses 18 specific fields for each plant, so that we can match plants as closely as possible with soil conditions. Additionally, students working working on Perl and HTML programming successfully created a web page that searches the database for plant-specific information, and will soon be able to add information to the database. They also created a basic interface for the web page that customers would see when they upload data or search the website. This dynamic interaction between Perl and MySQL is the hallmark of what industry calls a Web-Database Application. As we continue to build parts of the software, we enjoy fulfilling the challenges of linking the parts together.
-Jeff Pawlick