[GRLUG] Client/Server Database app question

[zdennis]

Chris Lamrock wrote:
> 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?
>>>
>>>

Just curious is this a new database ?

Zach