i would like to create a web page for attendance....a simple thing
students can use to :

enter their presence in the office,
review days attended by month(s) and year(s) or a specific period of time,
they should not be able to enter their presence except for the current date

i suppose this should be either access or sql database.

any ideas or examples to do this?

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Since no one answered in the last week I'll mention that I've got a freely downloadable sample Web database on my site that can show invoices by a range of beginning and ending dates:

Classic ASP Design Tips - ASP Web Database Sample
http://www.bullschmidt.com/devtip-webdb.asp