Re: Insurance Quote Database

But my advice is to get the latest version of PHP, there are some versions 
which crash easily.  One site I used to go to crashed several times a day, 
until they upgraded to the latest, at the time was 4.0, don't know about any 
more.


>From: Wiers <wiers(at)willard-oh.com>
>To: Michael Schultz <mike(at)virtualtech.com>, hwg-business(at)hwg.org
>Subject: Re: Insurance Quote Database
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:44:40 -0400
>
>Michael,
>
>I faced a similar project earlier this year.  After researching what was
>needed, we decided to abandon any ideas of a ready made, out-of-the-box 
>type
>product (such as Macrodmedia's Drumbeat 2000).  For our purposes, we found 
>this
>and other products to be too S*L*O*W and clunky.  We decided on a fast
>lightweight combination of Apache Web Server / PHP for programming / MySQL 
>the
>database system, all of which are completely free to download, install and
>customize for your purposes.
>
>PHP is a server-side scripting language, the code of which inserts easily 
>into
>an HTML page.  MySQL as a backend RDBMS is very straight forward.  Great
>support is available if you join the discussion lists.  Online manuals and
>archives of past discussions are already there for the use.  I also bought 
>two
>excellent books to give myself a jump start.
>
>The downside may be the learning curve.  But if I, a non-programmer, can 
>figure
>it out, your programmer shouldn't have any problems (PHP is based on C).
>
>http://www.php.net/
>
>http://www.mysql.com/
>
>http://www.apache.org/
>
>Good luck!
>Margie
>
>
>Michael Schultz wrote:
>
> > My question is this: have any of you designed a similar site?  If so, 
>how
> > did you handle the database portion of the project?  Is it possible that
> > the companies have a "ready-made" database available for such a purpose
> > either online or on disk?  Or would our severely overpaid (jk) database
> > programmer be sentenced to weeks of data entry to create the databases?
>

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