[GRLUG] Client/Server Database app question

[Chris Lamrock]

That's quite a statement! :-)  "PHP would be so easy" - I like easy!

Thanks for all your input guys!  I'll do some searching today on PHP and 
Perl and see
if I can come up with something similar to start from.

Thanks again!

-Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Creswell" <billcreswell at gmail.com>
To: "GRLUG general mailing list" <grlug at grandrapids-lug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Client/Server Database app question


> My experience with PHP would tell me that you can probably find lots
> of similar apps and code to look at and use for this type of project.
>
> You can do a lot with page formatting, and IE (maybe others) has
> support for the CSS
> page-break-after:always that you can use in a div or hr to force page
> breaks in the right places.
>
> In fact, PHP would be so easy, I would say try it first.
>
> On 1/18/06, Chris Lamrock <clamrock at nmtdie.com> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> We are using a very old windows based database program I wrote in Foxpro
>> 2.5 - and updated in Visual foxpro 6.0 in 2001 or so.
>>
>> I am thinking of a complete revamp and am also thinking about a
>> Client/Server type setup.
>>
>> My thoughts are SQL with a web browser front end.  I haven't done 
>> anything
>> like this before but thought it might be a good/fun project.
>> This software is a database of job quotes and will have to print out a
>> single page quote perfectly formatted - as well as display it on the 
>> screen.
>> The software will allow the user to enter/add/print/view/delete and 
>> search
>> for documents.  My current version has about 6 databases.
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> What would be a good language to write this in? Perl?
>>
>>
>> Is a "perfectly formatted document" printout doable from a web browser?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>>
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