could someone help me with this program idea?

ok I'm practically new to visual basic, the version I have is 6.0, well the problem is I have been basically forced to make a program that works like the program they use on the american airlines website for making reservations. well the thing is I've been told that making a project using databank or database (I don't know what the heck it is) to save and edit information and then retrieve the information is the best thing to do, but I only know how to save and edit information creating a regular txt file, so I was thinking about saving all the information on a regular txt file cause I don't know how to do the databank thing. also, on the american airline reservation program they use list boxes for selecting and saving the date for the departure and return date, and I don't know how to use that so that I can save the information on my txt, could someone help me? I also need to put a picture that shows the cabin with the seats and I dont know whot to add a picture and then summon it by using a comand button. I don't know, there are so many things about a program such as that one that I don't know how to do, I'd apreciate it a lot if someone could give me the form with the code on it for free but I guess that's too much to ask, so could someone please help me with the problems I mentioned, if while doing this thing I keep on getting new problems and I know I will I'll ponst the questions here so someone with a kind heart can celp me.

this is not the correct section to ask this question. you should have posted it in the Classic Visual Basic section.

ask moderators to move this thread to its appropriate forum.

danusty:

Welcome to VB Forum.

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well the problem is I have been basically forced to make a program that works like the program they use on the american airlines website for making reservations

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I don't mean to sound discouraging, but if you are planning on building a Web site like American Airlines then you certainly have a challenge ahead of you.

You can start by throwing Visual Basic 6 out the window, because I don't think it is going to help you much in trying to build such a Web site.

The American Airlines site is mostly javascript on the front end and I don't know what they use for their database, but it is going to be something of enterprise strength and therefore quite expensive.

If someone was going to duplicate American Airlines' Web site they would probably want to hire about five (5) very experienced professional Web developers and probably a couple of database experts.

I would suggest that you start off your programming efforts with something a little less involved than a Web site like American Airlines.

Also, if you are just starting to learn Visual Basic, it would probably be best for you to learn Visual Basic.Net as that is the latest version and it would be more beneficial to you than learning Visual Basic 6.0

Good Luck

I don't really have to do their website, I am practically being forced to emulate the program they use for the airplane ticket thing they have on ther website on visual basic, if it was me I would do something a lot simpler with the little knowledge that I have but I just can't and since visual basic 6 is all I have, that's the one I'm going to have to use.

Moved.

i don't know if this will do much help, but to add picture:

put an image control on ur form

go to the object's properties and in the picture column, browse for the picture that u want to display.

to display the picture using a command button:

VB Code:

Private Sub Form_Load()
 
image1.Visible = false
 
End Sub
 
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Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
 
image1.Visible = True
 
End Sub

Hope that will help!